giggedyguy
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I followed this tutorial exactly http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5399 Would have posted reply there, but the guy has been offline for a very long time and wasn't sure anyone monitored it. Feel free to move this there if you like.
I've done it both with Server 2008 and Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. But this is always the result (can't count how many times I tried):
Thanks ahead of time.
Note: I ran thru the steps 2 more times, only this time the backups were full size, not compressed like happened the first few times I did this. No idea why. So my final install.wim file ended up actually bigger than before (8.7 Gigs vs 7.3), even though I had way less stuff on the hard drive! Anyway, the installation proceeded "normally" this time, save there was no dialogue to choose drive options; but there was no way to get into Windows in a Virtual machine as the drivers installed conflicted with the VMware's drivers. I couldn't even engage a repair option within the virtual machine for some reason.
I've done it both with Server 2008 and Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. But this is always the result (can't count how many times I tried):
Thanks ahead of time.
Note: I ran thru the steps 2 more times, only this time the backups were full size, not compressed like happened the first few times I did this. No idea why. So my final install.wim file ended up actually bigger than before (8.7 Gigs vs 7.3), even though I had way less stuff on the hard drive! Anyway, the installation proceeded "normally" this time, save there was no dialogue to choose drive options; but there was no way to get into Windows in a Virtual machine as the drivers installed conflicted with the VMware's drivers. I couldn't even engage a repair option within the virtual machine for some reason.
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