VirtualBox 6.x branch is still very buggy and unstable, causes fake regressions to be found in ReactOS. Note: VirtualBox 5.2.44 version is highly and strongly recommended.

4 Built-in VirtualBox (low-level) debugger.

3.2.2.2 For an interactive window (e.g.

3.2.1.1 Configuring the serial port in minicom.

But it's still unknown whether Windows would boot without the registry changes made by MergeIDE. At the least, it should be possible to restore an image into a virtual disk. I don't have enough room on any of my drives to accommodate a 1TB virtual disk, so I guess I'm stuck.įYI for future readers of this post: I think this would have worked if I had enough HDD space. It just seems not to be able to read the disk.Īfter some searching I believe the new error is due to the fact that my virtual drive is smaller than the drive that was imaged (even though the actual space used was much less, the drive itself was large). But it can see the system disk, diskpart says it's online at SATA port 0.

'No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found,' error code 0x80042412. If I add that vmdk to my VM then it can see the backup! However, a new problem. Okay, I have created a write-through virtual disk backed by the physical disk that contains my WindowsImageBackup. So will I need to reinstall it and make a proper backup? Can I convert it into a VirtualBox image? I'm aware that you can do this with dd images.Įven if I'm able to convert the image, will it break? The VirtualBox wiki suggested that I need to run MergeIDE before taking the system image, which I didn't do, and now I've already uninstalled Windows. I have a Windows 7 system image (as in Microsoft's built-in backup, not dd or Norton Ghost).

Windows image for virtual box