One of the strongest feature in SCVMM is the ability to convert from physical machine to virtual machine and this what they called P2V.
When I try to use this feature I have an error that said “Boot and\or System volume C was not selected or is not found on source machine “
So after some research I do the following:
Open the CMD on the physical machine after I put the win 2008 DVD on the DVD drive
enter the following command
- [The drive letter for your DVD drive]:
- cd boot
- bootsect /nt52 c: /force
For more information click the following link
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942986
But after the machine restarted there was another error that said ” NTLDR is missing ”
So I restart the machine with Win DVD on the DVD drive and start repair it with command line tool and enter the following values
- bootrec.exe /FixMbr
- bootrec.exe /FixBoot
- bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd
For more information click the following link
http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/671
After that I restart the machine and try the convert again and everything was very good
