The other option is simply to add an additional IDE disk to your VMWare VM. That would enable the IDE/ATAPI driver in the registry, and you should be able to boot your VM.
The second alternative (which I ended up using, because I didn't think of the option above) was simply to run a repair installation of my Win2k3 VMs using the installation CD. Cheers Ken From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 15 July 2011 3:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk2VHD 2003 R2 IDE/SCSI Hyper-V Yea it rocks. One of those items I installed and never sat down and really looked at. I have several of those, we get a lot of stuff included in our edu agreement. I need to unplug my phone, turn off Outlook and lock my door for a couple of weeks and get them all sorted out and start taking advantage of them. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk2VHD 2003 R2 IDE/SCSI Hyper-V Much faster if you already have it installed... :) ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Ok, this made it too easy. I now love SCVMM. Much faster than Disk2vhd, did it all remote..pointed VMM at the source, told it what hyper-v server to target and it created the VM in hyper-v automagically. From: Kennedy, Jim Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk2VHD 2003 R2 IDE/SCSI Hyper-V I found a plan B. SCVMM seems to actually convert them to IDE during the process. I have that installed so I am running that now and am pretty optimistic. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk2VHD 2003 R2 IDE/SCSI Hyper-V Should work the same. They are the same generation. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk2VHD 2003 R2 IDE/SCSI Hyper-V I have a SCSI boot disk on a 2003 R2 server that I need to convert to Hyper-V. The VHD won't boot since it is a SCSI, so I need to add/enable the IDE drivers to the 2003 R2 box before I convert it with Disk2VHD I think. I have the basic concept here...found an article on how to regedit and add the HAL to XP but nothing for 2003 R2. Any pointers gang? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
