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| Thread ID: 112755 | 2010-09-21 05:45:00 | VMware or other option?? | berryb (99) | Press F1 |
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| 1138715 | 2010-09-28 05:49:00 | When I try and do a repair by booting from CD I get "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions on this computer. Contact your admin etc etc" part way through the repair. Just had a thought, that CD is XP SP1 where as the virtual machine would be XP SP3. Not that this has every been an issue for me in the past but ........ I've P2V'd a couple of machines at work using vizioncore.com - people's old desktops with some random app they needed to use a couple of times a year. Was the BSOD you got a Stop 0x0000007B error? I hit this problem several times and found this solution: support.microsoft.com |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1138716 | 2010-09-28 05:50:00 | Also have a read of www.virtualbox.org even though it isn't specifically for VMWare. | somebody (208) | ||
| 1138717 | 2010-09-28 06:01:00 | Have you slipstreamed SATA drivers and trying to run an ISO in a VM?? If you are, it will crash with the stop error somebody posted. If you've slipstreamed SATA drivers, it'll only work once you burn the ISO on a real system |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1138718 | 2010-09-28 19:18:00 | When I try and do a repair by booting from CD I get "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions on this computer. Contact your admin etc etc" part way through the repair. Just had a thought, that CD is XP SP1 where as the virtual machine would be XP SP3. Not that this has every been an issue for me in the past but ........ Never seen that before, are you sure you are doing a repair where it deletes system files and re-installs rather than the repair console where you input the administrator name and password. Repair install doesn't access the operating system, so how can GPO interfere? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1138719 | 2010-09-28 20:08:00 | I will check out the links provided this evening. Sol - doing a repair install, in virtual machine booted form CD, Repair option and gets gets about half way through to the Loading Devices and get the error. Better go do some work now. |
berryb (99) | ||
| 1138720 | 2010-09-28 20:09:00 | Never seen that before, are you sure you are doing a repair where it deletes system files and re-installs rather than the repair console where you input the administrator name and password. Repair install doesn't access the operating system, so how can GPO interfere? Errrr yeah it does ( kind of) a repair install is attempting to repair the original install of Windows. If there are corruptions within the OS you may get the error message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions on this computer. Contact your admin etc etc" part way through the repair." If it were a FULL reinstall then all the drive would be wiped. Trouble is, once you start a repair install going, theres no going back, so you cant return to before you started -- you may have to do a full reinstall. I have come across that sort of thing often, with different error messages, and every time its been due to a badly corrupted OS. I have created a virtual machine OK but it only gives a blue screen on booting. This more than likely would have been caused by the Virtual machine. Seems VM Player and your OS dont like one another. :( If its only the Virtual Machine giving problems, and you can boot into windows normally, simply wipe the VM, and start again. A repair install wont always fix the problem, if the system is to badly damaged it cant fix it (Got Two Customers PC's in the workshop now, similar thing) the only way to fix them is complete reinstall. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1138721 | 2010-09-28 20:30:00 | WT, Im not sure if the repair install actually interfaces with the o/s, like it does with the repair console where you login to the account. The VM is BSOD due to driver issues, that all, it has nothing to do with VMWare, it would probably do the same with any other virtualisation platform. The VM is loading and failing with device driver registered in the o/s. Usually a repair install fixes this. Seems the convertion will have to be done again, however before doing so, greater care will need to be taken to general everything to do with the boot process, chipset, IDE controllers, VGA, sound etc.....actually, you could just uninstall the vga and sound and NIC and let VMplayer provide the devices as new on 1st boot. Just be sure not to reboot the pc before conversion, or windows will restore all the device drivers. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
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