Thursday, May 23, 2013

Trying Mount W7 Image (Ghost) over VMWare

Problem:
I need start Virtual Machine with W7, so  i don't have DVD Installer, but i have W7 image (created with Norton Ghost).

I Think make one iso file with W7 image for mount that, next mount ghost boot tool for restore from W7 iso file, but ghost not read files from iso mounted.

One alternative is mount USB as Hard Disk, but now my usb have only 4Gb (image file is ~ 7Gb )
I Think too mount iso image over virtual drive using winmount http://www.winmount.com/winmount-free.html


 VMware vCenter Converter StandAlone (tool for convert your physical computer to virtual machine)

thinking more, then i choice one solution very very crazy.

I try shrink my physical partition for add one aditional partition using Computer Management, Disk Managment (10Gb), then attach that new partition on VMWare Disk and try  restore image with Ghost.

So,  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 – Media is write protected. For resolve that you need execute next commands.

cmd
diskpart 
list disk
select disk N
attributes disk clear readonly


* Too i try put .gho file into .iso for mount then restore, for that i need use iso editor, por example poweriso:
http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm  (v5.6)
Name: TEAM CRUDE
Key   : MIT68-I7WLE-CAGZN-DJYPR-PVNE4

* Alternatives
http://www.magiciso.com/download.htm
http://www.minidvdsoft.com/isocreator/

* Ghost32 ( For Convert .gho to .vmdk )

>ghost64 -clone,mode=restore,src=AmdW7-100.GHO,dst=toW7-100.vmdk -batch -sure

[1] http://www.mediafire.com/download/s2xp8f734b5a5xa/Ghost32_ghost64_11.5.1_Symantec.rar
[2] Convert .gho to .vmdk using ghost32 http://www.gregoryaubry.com/virtualisation-2/converting-image-file-format-from-gho-to-vmdk-and-from-vmdk-to-gho-symantec-connect/

*Plop BootManager (force boot from USB on VMware) http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html

* System Repair Disk (ISO) http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winre/createfromiso/#Downloads


* http://www.filecrop.com (for search resources)

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