Re: Recovering a V2i image into VMware Player 5.1
In addition to what André said have a look at fixboot and fixmbr in: How To Use the Recovery Console on a Windows Server 2003-Based Computer That Does Not Start
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Thank you, and all excellent suggestions if I could just get to the boot menu I will proceed with them.
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I guess 50th try is a charm finally got it to show me the boot menu.
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If need be manually edit the target VM's .vmx configuration file, while VMware Player is closed, adding the following option while making sure the CD/DVD is set to be connected at power on when...
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Ok, gparted shows that the partition is marked as boot.
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HeywoodKenobi wrote: Ok, gparted shows that the partition is marked as boot. In addition to what André said have a look at fixboot and fixmbr in: How To Use the Recovery Console on a Windows Server...
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None of the passwords I type into the recovery console are being accepted... lol
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HeywoodKenobi wrote: None of the passwords I type into the recovery console are being accepted... lol You can use the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to reset the password to a empty/blank...
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I changed the admin password and recovery console is still telling me invalid password...
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Did you change the Administrator password to a blank/empty password or did you give it a new password? If the latter try the former.
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hmmm, I used Locksmith from the ERD2005 CD to change the password. When I went back to change it to a null password it told me the system has to boot first for the password to change so that may...
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done and done....still not booting...just a black screen still. On edit, I got into the recovery console and did the fixmbr and fixboot.
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Could this be a problem with the way the VM was set up originally?
View ArticleThe file specified is not a virtual disk: cannot open vmdk
I'm running vmware player 5.0.1 on windows 7 x64. I rebooted the host after suspending my VM, and when I try to play the VM after the reboot, I get the error message in the subject. I've attached a...
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Re: The file specified is not a virtual disk: cannot open vmdk
The "EVANS - WHS 2011-0.vmdk" file is a meta-data virtual hard disk that is a pointer to a physical hard drive and you are not supposed to suspend of snapshot a Virtual Machine that is using a Raw Disk...
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Let me see if I understand. The VM has a virtual disk and also access to two raw disks. Nothing else has access to those raw disks, they're not mounted by the host OS. So what you're telling me is,...
View ArticleThe simplies backup ever ? - with VMware Player
Hi community, is it possible to use VMware player in its simplies form of "backuping" like this:1. One create virtual mashine inside directoty: VM_Win7_Folder2. Copy and Paste the complete folder to...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 guest installation
Under Host Ubuntu 12.10 , VMware-Player-5.0.1 , I try an U 12.04 guest installation .At the beginning I get message Ubu_guest1 but the installation proceeds ...and endswith message Ubu_guest2 ...My...
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I have a Phenom II X6 1090T; that should be sufficient to run 64-bit guests in Player 5.
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Re: Ubuntu 12.04 guest installation
Make sure the ISO Image you're installing from is not corrupt, validate it against its published MD5/SHA1 checksum. Don't use the Easy Install feature!
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