Mount raw/001 to virtual machine (XP)

VFC from MD5 is an easy product for doing this kind of thing.

http//md5.uk.com/software/

Hy,

I'm trying to mount a raw image coming from a Windows XP workstation to a Virtual Machine
I found some topics but not one permit to load it correctly.

So, i always have the same error "0x0000007B" when XP is loading.

I tried with VMWare or VirtualBox, i'm working on Windows environment.

Please help )

well, that is perfectly "normal".
0x0000007b is "inaccessible boot device" which actually means in plain words "you have the wrong driver for mass storage devices.

If the original XP was an old machine using ATA/IDE, then you will have more luck using Qemu, which uses a IDE/ATA compatible "virtual" disk controller.

Both VMWare and Virtualbox (for whatever reasons) virtualize a given make/model of disk controller, so you need to install to the (offline) image the proper driver.
Virtualbox (it may depend on exact version) has teh possibility to attach the disk as IDE (but still you need to set the driver to IDE).

The generic manual procedure (change a mass storage driver of an offline image) is described here
http//reboot.pro/topic/11729-how-to-load-sata-drivers-to-offline-windows-xp-system/

Please note how the links to 911cd.net are now invalid (board was shutdown) and something can be found only through the Wayback Machine.

Nowadays you should probably rather look for "P2V" tools, check here for VMWare (though I have no idea if it is Windows XP compatible)
https://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=6587906/
maybe you will need an older version than the current one (you will need some creative googling for this).

jaclaz

Very nice tools VMware vCenter Converter it works fine with Windows XP SP2!
Great lol

Hy,

I'm trying to mount a raw image coming from a Windows XP workstation to a Virtual Machine
I found some topics but not one permit to load it correctly.

So, i always have the same error "0x0000007B" when XP is loading.

I tried with VMWare or VirtualBox, i'm working on Windows environment.

Please help )

well, that is perfectly "normal".
0x0000007b is "inaccessible boot device" which actually means in plain words "you have the wrong driver for mass storage devices.

If the original XP was an old machine using ATA/IDE, then you will have more luck using Qemu, which uses a IDE/ATA compatible "virtual" disk controller.

Both VMWare and Virtualbox (for whatever reasons) virtualize a given make/model of disk controller, so you need to install to the (offline) image the proper driver.
Virtualbox (it may depend on exact version) has teh possibility to attach the disk as IDE (but still you need to set the driver to IDE).

The generic manual procedure (change a mass storage driver of an offline image) is described here
http//reboot.pro/topic/11729-how-to-load-sata-drivers-to-offline-windows-xp-system/

Please note how the links to 911cd.net are now invalid (board was shutdown) and something can be found only through the Wayback Machine.

Nowadays you should probably rather look for "P2V" tools, check here for VMWare (though I have no idea if it is Windows XP compatible)
https://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=6587906/
maybe you will need an older version than the current one (you will need some creative googling for this).

jaclaz

In details, my first step was to create a vmdk file with liveview 0.7b from my raw image.
Next, i create vm machine with VMWare.
Finally, i converted this virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter