WINDO7 32 BIT .img IMPORT IN A PROXMOX VM BUT NOT BOOT

[Abhijit Roy]

Hi All,

I am facing a typical problem, I have created a .img of a old windows7 32 bit machine as it contains a very important software for us which I do not want to miss, and import it to a blank vm it is imported successfully, but when I start this vm it giving boot problem and going to repair mode after showing blue screen, I have tried several ways to repair of this windows7 but not works kindly help or suggest as expert.

Thanks in advance

 

[ness1602]

Did you try turning on UEFI?

 

[Abhijit Roy]

How to do that???

 

[ness1602]

Hardware/BIOS/edit

 

[Abhijit Roy]

I have tried that but now os is not going to show windows logo even now it is stuck on proxmox screen not able to found hdd

 

[ness1602]

Then i would recommend going back to old BIOS,mounting hirens and tryin to fix partition from there

 

[ayozeve]

Hi, maybe I would try to import mergeide.reg in that windows and then change to ide. If you only have this .img you can try with this:
https://github.com/jakobadam/kvm-mergeide

Regards

 

[Abhijit Roy]

Thank u very much it really solved my problem

 

[ayozeve]

You are welcome. It happenned to me 2 weeks ago and this script saves my life .
Regards