Hi, I actually did exactly that, but as you can see, on the original system it was running Windows was not installed on a disk that was connected to the IDE controller; instead it was booting from a RAID controller -- though I'm not really sure if the problem is with it, and I don't know how to trace it.
Thanks a lot for the reply though, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:39 PM, JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried to do exatly the same. > Windows refuses to run. It detects that it is > on a different type of IDE controller or some such > crap, and it will reboot after displaying the windows > screen splash. In a previous email I had received > the advice given on URL > http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows > Do all the steps regarding HAL, Hard Disk Support, and AGP440. > After you do that, then you can TRY to use your hard disk > in virtual box. I am sttill struggling with this problem. > > Warning: Do not ever boot windows in a situation > where another bootable windows disk or partition is > visible to the booted windows. The booted windows will > invariably do something NASTY to disable the other bootable > windows partition from booting again. > > Cheers, > > JD > > Enver ALTIN wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got an ancient Dell PowerEdge 1660 reached to its end-of-life, and > I'm trying to virtualize the existing Windows 2000 installation running on > it. Because the server has acquired a lot of crap from our development team, > re-deploying all applications into a new virtual Windows installation could > take weeks. > > The existing server has a SCSI RAID controller, and an older ATI video > output on a PCI slot. So I presume I don't have to worry about MergeIDE > stuff (because there's no IDE) and agp440.sys driver (because it isn't > installed at all and there's no AGP card). > > I booted the server using a debian netinst ISO, used dd and netcat to dump > the whole disk image to its to-be host Windows 2003 server, used VBoxManage > convertdd to convert the image to a VDI; all went well. But the migrated > guest Windows 2000 failed to start: bootloader started, the "Starting > Windows" gauge came to the end, but the classical Windows 2000 splash screen > doesn't show up. > > My blind shot was to use the Repair feature from the Windows 2000 Server > CD, to fix any possible HAL issues, unfortunately that didn't help. I also > played with IO APIC VM setting, didn't change anything. > > Any clues? > > Thanks, > -- > Enver > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing [EMAIL > PROTECTED]://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > -- Enver
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