Having trouble converting windows vista and windows 7 physical machine to virtual machine.

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Published on 2009-09-23T16:47:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 20:03 UTC
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I have having trouble converting windows vista physical laptop to a vmware image. I am using vmware converter. It starts the process but then never completes. Unknown errors come up in the log. there is enough space on the hard drive and i am only trying to convert c drive. any suggestions?

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