Win7 - Transporter cannot find active HD or boot partition?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Parallels User
  • Start date Start date
P

Parallels User

Hi all!
Sorry if this topic was already discussed but I couldn't find an answer using search.

I am running OS X and Parallels Desktop 4.
I just wanted to create an Virtual Machine of my Laptop running Windows 7. For this I downloaded the last version of transporter for Windows. With Transporter Agent running, Transporter Express is creating only disc images but NO virtual machine. If I use Transporter in Advanced mode, I get all drives listed and when I choose "migrate" I've get the message (not verbatim, I am just translating it out of German) "No active or no boot drive found. Transporter will create disk images". And then it creates drive images. Those I couldn't use to create new virtual machine in OS X. I see them in Parallels Explorer or Image Tool but cannot convert it.

As for my Win 7 laptop: it boots fine. So, the boot partition is there. It is also set as "active"

What am I doing wrong?
How can I get my laptop virtualized?

Many thanks!
 
Windows 7 - Transporter cannot convert active partition

Hi,

I am having the same problem.
Windows transporter sees the selected active volume in the disk selection dialogue, and identifies the operating system as Windows Vista version 6.1 (Build 7600).
On the next dialogue it then reports that "No active volume is selected or no operating system is installed on the specified volumes. The selected volumes will be migrated t Parallels virtual data disks. Are you sure you want to continue."

Has anyone found a solution?

best regards,
Kevin
 

Attachments

I've gotten A BIT farther than that. I did the transport anyway. Once the .hdd file is on your Mac, run Parallels and select New Virtual machine from the File menu. One of the options is to select the new virtual machine from an existing disk image. Select the copied-over DVD, then run through the settings. The first time I tried this, I told it to set the hard disk up as a SCSI, and boot failed with Windows' infamous "blue screens of death" in the virtual machine. I then tried to set it up as an IDE drive. Windows 7 now starts with the colored "window lights" of its logo, but it's taking a long while to get to the login screen (ten minutes, still not there). Maybe someone out there can take this to the next step?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top