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When Importing, a Source Machine with Mixed IDE and SCSI Disks Might Not Produce a Bootable Virtual Machine

Details

A source machine with both SCSI and IDE disks has the IDE disks attached to the end of the disk list. If the source machine boots from an IDE disk, the target virtual machine created by Converter boots from the wrong disk because a VMware virtual machine looks for the first disk in the disk list.

Solution

To work around this issue:

Boot the imported virtual machine and press F2 to enter the BIOS.
Go to the Boot menu.
Highlight the Hard Drive row and press Enter.
Change the boot order of the disks so that the system disk is first.
Continue with the booting process.

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