P2V Windows 2003 on Fakeraid 1, can't make it boot

[mmenaz]

Hi, I've tried the "selfimage", full disk, way (and run mergeide.reg as wiki explains), but the image I got can't be mounted by systemrescuecd, and when I try to boot, also in console mode, it starts but then fails with 0x0000007B error.
Was someone able to P2V such a situation? I've the feeling that having a Raid1 "fakeraid" or "softraid" makes it not just a matter of IDE controller support, but the disk itself can be seen only by that MB controller.
Any idea / tips?
Now I've also the suspect that I did not properly merged the registry, as far as I remember I just double clicked on it, maybe there is something different like, as I'm reading now googling, "reg import MergeIDE.reg"?
Btw, the source "server" is very slow, took 6 hours for a 160GB HD, so I would love to know if someone else has been successful in this situation, and is really probably my foult in not merging the registry properly and copying ide related files as M$ KB suggested.

 

[m.ardito]

I tried in the past with that tool on real raid, btw, but selfimage to me always gave unmountable raw files. I thought I was missing something, those were my first p2v tries. Also I was never able to use (at the time) vmware tools/agents...
In the end I did it (offline) with fsarchiver. For mergeide, find mergeide file, double click shoud work with admin rights. just check that the registry entries are there after. Should work. You can also use a repair by win cd, probablyì, to fix the problem, but never tried.

Marco

 

[mmenaz]

Ok, I've discovered that for sure there was the problem that atapi.sys, intelide.sys, pciide.sys, pciidex.sys were not present in the right place.
Neverless I've tried fsarchiver, because required much smaller destination HD (I had a source of 160GB, but only 50 used).
I run it from the latest systemrescuecd, and since the physical server had the "fake" raid, I had to boot with the 'nodmraid' boot parameter.
After some cleanup of hidden devices (I removed a lot of them, including CPU, usb hubs, cdrom, networks adapters etc.) now things works really well and smooth, much better than in the old pysical server!
So thanks for pointing me to fsarchiver.
Best regards
Marco