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Re: Failed to create partition when attempt restore into Vmware

Using ISO 3.2 and the Vista environment. I can create the partition manually from the disk map tab. Now the restore dies with a device access error. Yes, the recover images have been verified to be good. It just seems to be a vmware issue. Is there a known good combination of vmware version/settings...

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by ChrisH on 07-15-2008
Failed to create partition when attempt restore into Vmware

I'm attempting to test a bare-metal XP-Pro restore by booting the ShadowProtect ISO in VMWare and restoring from DVDs. However, I'm blocked at the 'restore destination', as all the partitioning options give an unhelpful 'failed to create partition' message. I've attached the...

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by ChrisH on 07-13-2008
Problem restoring to Vmware Server

I have backed up my Windows XP SP3 system drive with Shadowprotect Desktop 3.1, and I cannot restore the backup to a virtual server I create with Vmware Server 1.0.6. I can start the Shadowdestop recovery environment all right in Vmware Server, but the problems come when Shadowprotect starts reading...

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by jlopez on 06-11-2008
.spf to Vmware Server 6: "Unable to determine guest operating system"

Hello, I am trying to use VMWare Converter 3.0.2 Update 1 (The Latest) to import a .spf file from a Shadow protect IT Edition 3.1 full backup volume to a VMWare Server 6 Server (The Latest). The converter is giving me this error: "Unable to determine guest operating system". The .spf file is...

Posted to IT Edition (Forum) by Technologist on 05-21-2008
Re: Error when opening spf file in vmware 6

William, page 102 in the VMware 6.0 Workstation User’s Manual implies that you can perform a file import operation on a ShadowProtect image of Windows XP system. However, I have not tested this functionality myself. In any event, you can simply restore the Windows XP image to the virtual machine and...

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by Pleonasm on 05-05-2008
Re: Error when opening spf file in vmware 6

How about importing a .SPF image of a Windows XP Pro system into VMware 6? Is this supported? Thanks for your help.

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by William H Pratt on 05-04-2008
Re: Error when opening spf file in vmware 6

Importing a .SPF image of a Windows Vista system is not supported in VMware Workstation 6. Hopefully, StorageCraft can use its influence to “encourage” VMware to address this shortcoming.

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by Pleonasm on 03-14-2008
Error when opening spf file in vmware 6

Hi. I created an spf file of my c drive all the default options using the trial version of Shadowprotect Desktop and saved it to a folder on that same hard drive. When I try to open up this file in the latest version of VMWare 6 (by going to File...Open) I get the following error: Failed to query source...

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by explore on 03-14-2008
SPDv3.x Backup / Open in VMware 6, error = failed to query source for information

I used SPDv3.x to backup a laptop to an external hard drive. I used 4.3GB splits in the event I needed to put these to DVD. I used VMware 6 Workstation to try to open the existing VM, chose my StorageProtect SPF file and I received the error message: "failed to query source for information"...

Posted to Desktop Edition (Forum) by jtaugher on 11-18-2007
VMware Server - Disaster Recovery - Virtualisation

How to use VMWare Server and the VMWare Converter as a Disaster Recovery Solution

Posted to Support White Papers (FileGallery) by Kevin on 10-23-2007

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