Hi all! Hopefully someone can help.
One of our machines' motherboards bit the dust. I am trying to take the drive and turn it into a virtual machine.
Here is what I have done. Let me know if I am doing this wrong or a better way to do it, becuase the OS is not working correctly.
I took the harddrive out of the box and connected it to another machine (The drive to be drive C: but now since it's connected to another machine it's G:). I ran Norton Ghost on the harddrive to create an image. I then converted that image into a VMDK with Norton Ghost. Next I created a new virtual machine with VMware Server 2 and attached the VMDK. I then started the VM and it runs through its' mini-setup created by Norton Ghost. It loads the login welcome screen and then I get a Service Control Manager dialog box with "At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use Event Viewer to examine the event log for details." I click OK and log into the machine. I try to go to the Event Viewer, but it tells me it cannot find the snap-in or any other snap-ins. I do some searching around and I notice that the drive letter is labeled E (I would think it would need to be C). I tried to run diskpart to change the drive letter, but I can not do it on the boot/system drive.
So the machine powers up, but I am not able to really do too much. None of the services are running. I cannot even view them because I get an error saying it cannot load the snap-in. Any ideas on what to do?