Convert Physical Machines To Virtual With Disk2vhd
Oct 19, 2009
The Windows Sysinternals group at Microsoft has released Disk2vhd that is a free physical to virtual converter. Disk2vhd allows you to create VHD (virtual hard dive) files from physical drives on your computer while your system is online. The VHD files generated can be used in Microsoft Virtual PC or on Hyper-V server and you will have an instant clone of your machine running virtually. This is perfect for duplicating a production server for a development virtual machine that you can use on a different computer.
Two XP Pro machines on a hard-wire network with SP2. The host computer (A) can see the shared files of the other machine (B), and the B machine can see the files for A. However, when I try to access A shared files from B, I get a message that I "might not have permissions." I'm the admin on both machines.
My mom brought me her e-machines computer today with the complaint that Windows won't load.I think it might have a virus.So I hook it up and turn it on and am greeted with the loading screen before it brings up a windows error screen prompt that looks like a DOS screen.It says how there might have been a power failure or a virus or God knows what, but it gives you three options for proceeding.1) Safe Mode.2) Start with the last known good configuration.3) Start Windows Normally.I tried starting with all three options and it starts to do each one and then restarts and takes me right back to the loading screen before presenting me with the same DOS-looking screen again and the same endless three options.
I am running Virtual PC 2007 on a Vista Platform. Everything is good with the exception of setting up shared folders. I have three guest PCs running. I have installed Virtual Machine Additions on all three. I am able to set up and access a shared folder on the host system on one of the three with no problem but the other two refuse to access any shared folder. When I configure the shared folder, it shows up in the guest PC under MyComputer, but it shows as "disconnected" and is inaccessible.
I support 2 schools both have the same problem on different machines 1 school uses desktops the other laptops all different makes and models. All XP Pro machines running SP3. Error checking seems to enable me to log on as administrator (right click local c: drive, properties, tools, error checking tick both boxes run after reboot) this is done in safe mode. All windows updates installed (except annoying ones like windows search 4.0 etc) when the problem occurs I get "windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system. Detail - insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service" followed by "userinit.exe - Application error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000012d)." then the system hangs and i have to force shut down. This has happened after the error checking has completed, logged in as normal and reboot and the problem comes back! I've ran, MRT (Microsoft malicious removal tool), Symantec, AVG and malware bytes and found a big fat nothing!
Where could I go on my home XP machine to see if the 3 users are using web based email accounts (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.)? I have 3 teenage daughters and I want to be sure I know who they are talking with. Each uses Outlook, also. Would there be files or logs in cookies or another file on the machine?
I was given a brand new Compaq Presario SR1910NX recently (I have 2 other heavy duty computer I use for video-editing, etc.). It is one of those "pre-loaded" machines with 2 partitions (one for OS; other for backup). The operating system is XP Home and plenty of bloatware. I don't plan on doing anything fancy with the machine - just some basic stuff like maybe a music server, check email, I would like to do a clean install with Windows XP SP2 (primarily to get rid of the partitions, bloatware, and upgrade OS).
I keep getting the error message that my Windows virtual memory minimum is too low. I have Microsoft Windows 2000 and the following settings: total paging file size 205 MB; minimum 2 MB; Recommended 190 MB; Currently allocated 205 MB; current registry size 21 I'm not the system administrator so I can't change these numbers. I also couldn't find the pagefile.sys that someone suggested looking for. My IT guys don't know what's wrong; they reformatted my computer but I got this error message again. What should I tell them to do?
I am using XP Home as a "server" to just host some files for everyone to access. We do not have enough in the budget right now to upgrade to XP Pro or 2003 and I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this. When I am on a client machine and try to access the "server" it will prompt for the Guest password. I type in the Guest password I assigned and it shows me all the shared folders. The only thing is that it doesn't prompt for the password on all machines. EX: Client1 prompts for pass, but Client2 doesn't. I have all the windows firewalls turned off.
Dell Optiplex GX240 with Windows XP. While i was asleep my computer crashed with a blue screen. I wasn't able to copy down the error message, but on the bottom it read beginning dump of physical memory I restarted the computer and after the Dell load page it turns into a black screen reading strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. F1 will only return to same message, and F2 leads me to setup utility. The only device that seems to be working is my A: drive. It says that my cd drive is not installed.
I'm wondering if anybody out there knows what this error is? My pc 'crashed' and told me: "Begining Dump Of Physical Memory" I'm running Windows 2000.I'll be much grateful for any 'right' reply.. since I have limited knowledge of computers.
well, I managed to screw up my winxp reinstall in a big way. I'm very upset over it since its my sis-in-laws computer. Before, she could not access the internet, but at least she could boot up WinXP and play games, access her email and all of her programs on the desktop...now...nothing but the following popup error message:
Error: One of the files containing the system registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful
then the popup disappears and sends me to a blue screen (long) message starting with this:
A problem has been detected and windows bios has been shut down to prevent damage
I was doing something with task manager today and I saw that it's only reading 780 some mb of physical memory when it should be reading a gig. Is there anything I can do short of taking them out individually and putting them in different slots to test them? I have a 512mb and two 256's.
Everytime I perfom a Spyware Scan on my daughters computer it reboots automaticly, with a short blue screen flashing up. And when I run a microsoft update scan the computer reboots in the same manner during that scan. Everytime the HD is getting scaned it reboots in the middle of it, with a short flash of a blue screen that talks about physical memory dump. Can somebody help me there. By the way I reformated the HD already and reloadet everything new on that HD, because it had the same problem before. Could it be the BIOS or a setting.
Over the past 48 hours my computer has begun to give me the following error:A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.Driver_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.I have not installed any new programs in about two weeks.I have tried to fix this myself by running spyware scans (spybot and adaware) as well as AVG virus scans.All turned up nothing.I also run "clean-up" regularly to get rid of my temp internet files, etc and ran that as well.I also checked my hard disk for errors and had them automatically fixed.If there is any other information you need, please let me know and I will do my best to provide it asap.
Im getting: Stop c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file) SystemRootSystem32Config|SOFTWARE or its log or alternate and it goes on to say how its dumping physical memory.
add some more ram to my Laptop which was working really well, untill today when i turned it on.
blue screen showing "Physical Memory Error" please contact techincal support.
so i thought it had to do with the Ram so i removed it. same error MSG was displayed, blue screen showing "Physical Memory Error" please contact techincal support.
I am running XP Pro and have been getting the bsod physical memory dump for some time. I have replaced all the memory in the machine, thinking that could be it, based on what I was told.Now, I get this almost every time I reboot. I have the event logger going so I will post what it says.I even took pictures of the screen when it happened just today. I would love to know what to do.Error code 100000c5, parameter1 0c2148bc, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 0000, parameter4 8054a832.
My friend has an old computer running XP pro. He only has USB 1. If I fitted a USB 2.0 PCI Card would this enable him to run he's printer which needs USB 2. I said it would but I don't want to buy it and find out I'm talking rubbish.
When I start up Windows XP I get a message from Zone Alarm which reads:Suspicious Behavior Windows Genuine Advantage is trying to read and modify physical memory ( programme WgaTray.exe)Zone Alarm gives me the option to allow or deny - thus far I have opted for deny. Please could anyone tell me what Windows Genuine Advantage is; I suspect any advantage would be to Microsoft rather than to me.
I have a Dell 9100 with Dual Core CPU and 1GB memory running XP Professional. This PC is very slow at boot time. Even once it is up it is slow and constantly making churning noise. The hardware test reports that all the hardware is functioning with not failures. I came to know about Bootvis which helps debug and detect issues that occur during the startup. When i ran the utilitiy it is complaining about "Number of Physical drives in the trave file is 0" when i am trying to analyze the bootvis trace file. Has anybody encountered this error or know about this error
all of a sudden..it begins a "physical dump". The first time it did it. It said it was due to hardware. I went through my hardware list and it all appeared to be fine. Suddenly...it did it again. This time the message was just a bunch of numbers (I didn't write them down. but I'm sure it will happen again and I'll get it.) Long story short. I went to several friends and everything they tell me to do seems to be making things worse.
My computer won't start in safe mode, or normal mode..right now it will only start when I choose "The last configuration that worked". Even then...my computer will work fine for a week and then BOOM. acts strange for several days..off and on. I have no idea what's wrong with it. I've run so many programs that I don't know what I've tried and what I haven't.
Several times a day my computer jumps to a blue screen and says it is dumping the physical memory and counts from 1 to 100 and reboots. Just aggravates me to death. I am a senior citizen and not too swift on the computer operation, but I try.
I am working on a Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop.The first problem was a blue screen that said:Quote: STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}The registry cannot load the hive (file):systemrootsystem32configsoftware or its log or alternate It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.Beginning dump of physical memory Physical memory dump complete.Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance I fixed that by going into the recovery console and replacing:C:windowssystem32configsoftware C:windowssystem32configsam.bak C:windowssystem32configsystem.bakC:windowssystem32configdefault.bakC:windowssystem32configsecurity.bakwith the one in the C:windows epair directory
Physical memory dump on my xp sp2 system running 768 megs sd ram. Athlon xp1200 processor.This problem is happening more and more often. I have run avast, adaware, spybot, all come up clean.Sometimes pc is unable to recover and will keep coming back to screen for selecting safe mode etc.Tried to run registry cleaner I saw on your home page. But once downloaded and tried to run this, PC crashed again. Even now I am usure how long I will get on this site before something goes down.
With a direct link to the software to convert .pst to .csv?My PST has corrupted(280MB size) nd tried fixing with few free softwares including scanpst but negative.
I run Windows XP and keep finding that when I leave my PC unattended for more than 10 minutes I get a blue screen with a scary message regarding the dumping of physical memory. The error codes in the message are as follows:
stop 0X0000008E, 0XBA40721F, 0XEBC267C, 0X00000000, videoprt.sys - address BA40721F base at BA401000 Date Stamp41107d08
My computer was working a minute ago. I decided to restore it. I put the disk in, except it belonged to my other Sony computer. The computer message was that it was the wrong disk. So I took it out. I rebooted the computer and got the blue screen of death it says Dumping physical memory to disk and started at 0 and got to 60. I figured it'd explode at 100 LOL so I better shut it down. I rebooted several times but that always comes up. I rebooted and hit F8 I think it is which gave me the option to reboot the hard drive, a floppy, or the DVD drive. I did one at a time, rebooting in between each choice. I still have that screen. Did I totally ruin my computer? Oh sigh.I can get to nothing but that screen. No control panel.I then figured I couldn't make it much worse, so I put in the Windows XP disk to just install Windows XP again, but the computer wouldn't even pick it up. The disk was spinning, but the screen remained the same.
Everything will freeze, completeley and then it will go to a blue screen that says something like HARD DRIVER ERROR:BEGINNING DUMP OF PHYSICAL MEMORY
which scares the living **** out of me, so I turn off the power manually from the power strip connected to my computer and switch it on again, sometimes, It'll start up and after it shows the Hardware and Window XPs loads, It goes to another blue screen that says HARD ERROR, instead of having me log in. l0s71
I have an HP Media Center and an IOMEAGA 1Tb NAS. The Media Center software will only record to physical hard drives on the media center. This means any hard drive or USB hard drive. I am looking for software that will emulate this and will point to a network drive this way I can record directly to my NAS.
