Bob,
I'm using TrueImage Workstation version 9.1. I took a look at the Home
version, and it's not clear to me if it includes the bootable CD image which
is a "must" for P2V conversions; you can ask, of course. They also charge
extra for the "Universal Restore" option, but it really works great. It
will also allow you to image a working partition on one PC and move it to
another PC. Great software.
Disclaimer: I have no connection to Acronis other than being a satisfied
customer.
Dean
"just bob" <kilbyfan@aoldotcom> wrote in message
news: m...
> Hello Dean,
>
> Which version are you using? I just did a little reaserch and wondering if
> the "Acronis True Image Home 2009 " will do what you say or do I need an
> enterprise version?
>
> Thanks,
> -Bob
>
> "DPM" <> wrote in message
> news:OIX2%...
>>I use Acronis TrueImage - the best solution I've found. Does a P2V in 3
>>steps:
>>
>> 1. Boot the TI CD and back up the drive you want to a network drive or
>> USB disk.
>> 2. Create a VM.
>> 3. Boot the VM using TI CD, restore the drive (using Universal Restore
>> option).
>>
>> I've used this a number of times - never fails to work.
>>
>> Dean
>>
>> "Bo Berglund" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:32:21 -0700, "just bob" <kilbyfan@aoldotcom>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Per my original post, I was hoping MS had a better way now.
>>>>
>>>>I did one a couple years ago and from memory here is how I did it with a
>>>>windows95 machine.
>>>>
>>>>I ghosted a windows95 box to image files and put the image files on a
>>>>2nd
>>>>physical hard drive to the host machine
>>>>
>>>>Then in the host machine I created a new virtual PC for Windows98. In
>>>>VPC I
>>>>created a blank vm hard drive for C, and added the 2nd physial drive as
>>>>a D
>>>>drive, and then booted it to a ISO or image file of a Ghost 2003 disc, I
>>>>can't remember which.
>>>>
>>>>Then with Ghost runing I did a image-to-disk restore using Ghost and
>>>>that
>>>>was it: My physycal box was converted to VPC.
>>>>
>>>>Is this still the best way to do this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know about Win98, it is way too old, but I have converted a
>>> Win2000Pro machine to virtualPC. :-)
>>>
>>> The steps I took were:
>>> 1- Inside of the source Win2000 I used the native backup tool to
>>> create a full system backup as a file on the PC.
>>> 2- Copied this file over to the PC where VirtualPC was installed.
>>> 3- Created a new virtual machine with an empty virtual hard disk.
>>> 4- Installed Windows2000 from scratch on this VM from a W200 install
>>> ISO file (this install will later be overwritten)
>>> 5- Installed the Virtual Machine Additions on this new VM
>>> 6- Shared the host folder with the backup file to the guest
>>> 7- Used the native W2000 backup utility to restore the full system
>>> from the backup file now accessible to the guest via the shared
>>> folder. This is where the new install is overwritten. You might want
>>> to first take a copy of the VHD file on the host as a means of being
>>> able to experiment more easily if the following steps go bad.
>>> 8- Restarted the guest with the W2000 ISO install disk active and made
>>> a repair install so that it could sort out the hardware differences
>>> between the source and target machines.
>>> 9- Started up the guest in safe mode and uninstalled all of the
>>> software that was on the source machine for handling USB devices (in
>>> my case an HP printer software suite)
>>>
>>> After this longish exercise the virtual machine worked as intended.
>>>
>>> You might want to save time by using more recent tools like Acronis
>>> with Universal Restore, but these are not for free....
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bo Berglund
>>
>>
>
>
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