rmp5s Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 I copied a physical drive to a vdisk yesterday and it won't boot. It's an old Windows 7 machine and it's bluescreen-ing at boot. I went in through command line and diskpart and it is saying there are no volumes on the disk so I wanted to crank up GParted and see if I can fix whatever's screwed up. But, no matter what "OS install ISO" I select (GParted, Windows 10, etc), when I hit update at the bottom, the button changes to "updating..." and greys out, then...nothing...nothing happens. It just sits there. Is there a way to figure out what's making it unhappy? I wish there was a "verbose" option or something when it came to this... Thank you!! Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 What controller type did you pick for the vdisk? virtio / scsi / ide / sata? Try picking SATA. BSOD at boot is usually due to missing drivers e.g. virtio / scsi. SATA tends to be safer. It would be even better if you pre-install all the drivers from the virtio iso before converting physical disk to vdisk. Quote Link to comment
rmp5s Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 19 minutes ago, testdasi said: What controller type did you pick for the vdisk? virtio / scsi / ide / sata? Try picking SATA. BSOD at boot is usually due to missing drivers e.g. virtio / scsi. SATA tends to be safer. HA!! Simply switching it to SATA made it boot. Well THAT was easier than expected!! lol Thanks!! Quote Link to comment
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