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I had problems downloading Hirens also. I emailed them and was given the link below which works fine.
Index of /hirensbootcd/
Many Thanks
400 MB downloading now
Regards
Alan
It is a trial for some reason
Here is the Hirens info page
Hiren's BootCD 14.0 - All in one Bootable CD » www.hiren.info
I download from here
Hiren's BootCD Fan & Discussion Platform
up to v14 now.
Grüß Gott lieber Wolfgang
and Hi to all member of this forum!
Thanks a lot for this Macrium's Guide!
I appreciate this.
I'm trying VMPlayer 3.1.4 on Vista:
This application is able to Open entire OS images from:
VMware (vmx)
Virtual PC (vmc)
Symantec backUp (sv2i)
StorageCraft (spf)
Acronis True Image (tib)
but not MRIMG from Macrium Reflect 4.2 :-(
I have an image MRIMG of my VistaOS.
I have the Macrium's Boot CD.
I'd to create a new virtual machine with my VistaOS (guest = host).
But I'm not able to load the MRIMG image into VmPlayer :-(
VMPlayer People wrote:
If the Macrium boot CD can recognize a Player hard disk you may be able to create a new virtual machine in player and use the boot CD to restore directly.
he Linux CD/ISO Image does recognize VMware SCSI Disks and NICs and can be used to restore an image to a Virtual Machine. The program also has a BartPE Plugin as well. So I see no reason why this product cannot be used to restore images to a Virtual Machine.
Macrium Support wrote to me:
"If VMPlayer emulates a standard IDE/Sata hdd interface, then yes the
Macrium
boot CD will work out of the box for you. Otherwise, there is the option to
inject drivers (in this case VMPlayer mass storage drivers) into the Macrium
boot CD."
I'm newbie and dont know what to do. I dont understand.
They say that this is possible...I guess this were a wonderful workaround.
(Otherwise booth Macrium&VMPlayer become useless for me)
Does VMPlayer emulates a IDE/Sata HDD interface?
How to inject "VMPlayer mass storage drivers" into the boot cd?
I'd be very gratefull to you, if you may want to help me with "easier
suggestions", how to get this kind of workaround.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best Regards.
[ Grüße an Schwarzwald !]
I tried this process. When I start VMPlayer and open the new VM with my OS Vista (guest) fail to load. Boot manager tells: Windows boot failed, a needed device not found. (I never had the DVD of Vista, because it comes as OEM) Is it really so hard to get an image working on a virtual machine? :-(
Have a look here
How to create a Virtual machine from a Macrium image backup
see towards the end of the discussion.
Thanks mjf for your reply. Yes, I read this link today. I did so. and it seems that MRIMG > to VHD went fine. tomorrow I'll try this StarWind Free V2V converter | Convert VMDK to VHD Image Files for Free at the moment I have difficultities to download this utiliy (*corporate+ mail adress required?!?!): otherwise I should give up with my efforts. too hard for me. If anyone has an idea, I'd very gratefull. thanks.
Macrium wrote: The reason your system is not booting is because you need a different mass storage driver early on in the booting process. It is almost definitely installed as VM's do not emulate exotic hardware. However, it will need to be enabled. my question: the vhd from the utility is regognized. ok. but how to set vmplayer to get the Vista booting process working? macrium told that I have only to enable vmplayer for the driver needed by vista... any ideas are welcome thanks.
I guess I should give up with my efforts :-(