The installation is a simple “next” through till it is finished.īasically anything that can used to storage your VM as long as it meets two requirements. This is a free download from VMWare’s website. Have a cold beer, you reloaded the machine without dataloss.Drag any needed files out of old system.
Convert Physical Machine to a VMWare Player (or VMWare Workstation) VM.Plug in USB Hard Drive, or mount a network share on the system.Install Converter on machine to be converted.The high level overview of this process is: This is a fairly uncomplicated procedure and can be done with free products from VMWare. Since the target audience of my blog is the virtualization crowd I thought I would blog about how to use VMware to help minimize data loss during a reload. No matter what caused you to be in this situation one thing is for sure…you hope you don’t lose anything important after reloading your machine. Sometimes for OS upgrades, sometimes because your friends kids found the latest Java game website and clicked every single box that pops up. Sooner or later every PC will need to be reloaded. This method is strictly for supplementing your reload procedure in case you forgot to backup certain files. Standard Disclaimer: I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! I encourage you to use other backup methods in conjunction with this method so that your data is 100% secure.
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