![]() ![]() We tried creating a new VM with both raw disk access and it's own virtual disk, cloning one to the other (using clonezilla) and then running the VMware convert utility on it, but that resulted in VMs which blue screened on boot, so that wasn't a solution. It was a long haul though, and most of the suggestion over at How to convert laptop drive (with a dead laptop) for use as VMware image? were of limited use. We have just performed this operation on two PCs, a dead desktop and a dead laptop. So with that in mind, I'm looking for suggestions and help on how to convert this laptop drive into something I can use on my new Macbook Pro. Obviously, if my original laptop was still functional, I could install and run vmware converter from there but that's not an option here. However, upon further investigation, it looks like VMware Converter only supports converting a local machine (the desktop) or a remote machine (via IP) but not a laptop drive plugged into the local machine. ![]() My original thought was to plug the laptop drive into a windows desktop via an external USB enclosure and create the image that way, then transfer the working VM to the Mac. Googling around, it looks like I might be able to use VMware Convertor to do this. In order to do this, I need to convert the physical drive to a VMware image. It being a 7 year old laptop, I decided to give Apple a try this time around and try to use VMware to access my old data if necessary. ![]() I have a windows laptop that recently died (dead motherboard). ![]()
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