I have a crashed HP laptop, with Win7 x64 Pro as operating system.
The crash was hardware related (power supply) but it will be a while before it is repaired, so I want to virtualize the laptop using Workstation7. This way I hope to be able to continue working with it while waiting.
Note: I have not upgraded yet to WS8 because of the numerous issues I saw in this forum following its release. So whatever advice you can give it must be related to the WS7 level...
I have a full disk backup including all partitions of the laptop SSD disk done with Acronis True Image Home 2012 with Universal Restore option.
It was done on an XP computer where I had installed Acronis and with the SSD attatched via a SATA dock.
How could I go about converting this TIB into a working virtual machine?
I have done P2V a few times already with earlier HP laptops, but I used the Paragon GoVirtual product at that time and most importantly the operating systems on those laptops was always XP-Pro. Now with the hidden system boot partition of Win7Pro X64 it does not work.
At least I believe the reason it does not work is the boot partition...
Anyway, given the Acronis TIB backup with the whole disk, what can I do?
I have seen suggestions to convert to VHD format, but that is a no-go since VHD maxes out at 128 Gb and this drive is 256 Gb.
So how do I get it into vmdk format ready to go?