[Solved] Disk2VHD / CloneVDI of Win 64 Laptop Not booting

[DomDis]

I have a 1TB SATA drive in my laptop running Windows 10 64bit. Using Disk2VHD I created a VHD file which I stored to an external USB drive. I attempted to create a VM for it setting storage as Controller: SATA and I added the .VHD file from the USB drive. When I attempt to Start it I get a No Bootable medium found error.

I also tried AHCI (Sata)

I used CloneDVI to convert the file to .VDI and I attempt to use that but I receive the same error.

When using Disk2VHD I select all volumes except the USB drive that I was saving the file to. There were 3 \\?\Volume{ ... , C:\ and one h:\ I did not tick use VhdX and I did not tick use Volume Shadow Copy

Any assistance in resolving this is greatly appreciated.

[mpack]

The usual mistake is to image a UEFI host and then not to configure EFI in the VM. A legacy BIOS will not recognize the partitions on a GPT disk image.

[DomDis]

The usual mistake is to image a UEFI host and then not to configure EFI in the VM. A legacy BIOS will not recognize the partitions on a GPT disk image.

Thanks for the reply!!! I'll look into that. In Oracle VM Virtual box that setting is found in Settings, System, Extended Features Tick Enable EFI (special OSes only)

[DomDis]

The usual mistake is to image a UEFI host and then not to configure EFI in the VM. A legacy BIOS will not recognize the partitions on a GPT disk image.

Thanks for the reply!!! I'll look into that. In Oracle VM Virtual box that setting is found in Settings, System, Extended Features Tick Enable EFI (special OSes only)

Thank you this made it Boot


Thank you thank you

[mpack]

Thanks for reporting back.