Converting physical server with RAID to Proxmox VM

[Efflixi]

I have a physical Dell Server Tower that is running Windows server bare metal through the onboard PERC H710 controller. I've tried everything I know to convert this to a virtual machine but nothing results in the system fully booting. The closest I can get is that the recovery partition works so I can boot into the server recovery console but it can't see the boot drive or interact with it. No amount of loading drivers or anything in the recovery makes it work.

Things I've tried:
Disk2VHD
urbackup restore image
redo backup

Only the urbackup image restore resulted in the VM being able to do anything and that was just the recovery console as mentioned.

 

[fireon]

Do you know this Wiki article? https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE
I've always had great success with Clonezilla. “dd” also always worked quite well.

Please show us your VM configuration on Proxmox:

qm config <vmid>

What error message do you get when you start the VM?

 

[Efflixi]

Since writing the original post I've actually managed to get one step further now. Now it bluescreens because of a directory services error. The physical machine is a domain controller running Server 2008 R2. I can now actually boot into directory services restore mode but obviously this isn't functional. Regular safe mode still doesn't work and just boot loops.

boot: order=ide0;ide2
cores: 4
cpu: host
ide0: local-lvm:vm-1101-disk-0
ide2: none,media=cdrom
machine: pc-i440fx-9.2+pve1
memory: 7168
meta: creation-qemu=9.2.0,ctime=1753883280
name: DNS
numa: 0
ostype: win7
smbios1: uuid=e1af4df5-476d-4e49-b7af-8add11d70356
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 0a39e061-6ca3-4819-aeec-19d7a7659cc0

This doesn't need to be a complicated VM so the hardware isn't much. I'm just trying to get rid of 15 year old physical hardware.