

WinXP SP2 partition in laptop with an IDE disk controller. (Notes to myself to make the next migration MIGRATING A WinXP PARTITION TO VIRTUAL BOX I must conclude that I am missing a driver or two for my Virtual Box.īefore you direct me over to their forum, I'm wondering if any of you can suggest something further with ATIH (and yes, I've tried using its converted VHD instead of a. In almost every case I get this BSOD at the same point in booting, despite trying other VB controllers and system options. Let me say that in the past 3 days I have tried all kinds of combinations in attempting to migrate WinXP to VBox, including the VMWare Stand-Alone Converter, RAW disks built in Linux, and VBoxManage conversions (at which I am now a master). I tried booting into Safe-Mode, but the display doesn't make it past the first line of d347bus.sys before the BSOD again. The Win logo appeared, and the blue progress-bar sequence made it halfway through before the BSOD. I then shutdown, deattached the working WinXP disk, and made the recovered disk the IDE Primary Master. I rebooted into my working WinXP VHD as IDE Primary Master and verified the recovered files on the 2nd drive. I also checked the Recover Signature box.

Options used: I restored the partition, sector-0, and the MBR (all 3 choices near the end of the wizard). tib from the USB HD into the IDE Primary Slave. Ok, then: I booted BartPE in the VBox and recovered the.

I pre-prepped the old WinXP partition by installing IDEreg (registry mod to relax IDE constraints), stripping out most programs and hardware-dependent apps, setting some services to Manual, defragging, chkdsk'd, etc, before backing up all 5Gb to a. It works fine booting into VBox and restoring a 2012. I have built a BartPE with ATIH 2012 and the Plus-Pack for a universal restore. tib file content I might attempt to load to it. I installed a WinXP CD into VB and use this working IDE Primary Master to inspect a formatted IDE Primary Slave for whatever VHD's or. I have VirtualBox v4.1.6 installed in a Win7 Pro partition on my laptop. I have carefully searched the forum and KB for all posts on this subject, but must in the end approach the experts here to request advice.
