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  • 1.  Saving Virtual Disk Files

    Posted Apr 16, 2009 02:49 PM

    All,

    I recently encountered a Vista blue screen event. After changing the BIOS to to boot from the Vista installation CD and selecting repair, I was unable to continue. I tried upgrading with the serial number but the installation required me to run it from the environment (unusable). SO...

    At this point, I'm ready to restore a Trueimage backup I did from last year. But...I want to save the Quicken files that are in the existing virtual disk. That means that once I restore the Vista guest, I need to get the Quicken Qdata file into the restored machine.

    I will try to get a screenshot of the crash asap. I have a Mac Pro with dual quad processors and 10 GB of memory. The guest Vista 32 OS was converted from a Dell XPS about 9 months ago and has been running fine...until now. Yes, I was doing Time Machine backups but, since they ran every hour at the time of the crash, I ran out of time. I've since changed it to run every 24 hours.

    I have the upgrade version of Vista on CD. If anyone knows how to repair/upgrade the environment or save the Quicken data file, I would be eternally grateful.

    Thanks,

    Harry



  • 2.  RE: Saving Virtual Disk Files

    Posted Apr 16, 2009 03:14 PM 
     But...I want to save the Quicken files that are in the existing virtual disk. 
    You didn't say what version of Fusion you're using however if it's 2.x then have a look at: VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Help > VMware Fusion Help > Managing Virtual Machines > Using VMDKMounter to Mount a Virtual Disk as a Mac Volume
    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                
    
                                                
                                            
    
                                        
    

                                        
                                        

                                    
			
    

                                    
                                
    

                                
                                
    
                                
    
                            
		
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                                            RE: Saving Virtual Disk Files
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                        
    
                                    
    
                                    
    
                                        
    
				
                                                
    
                                                    
    
					
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            
        
    
				
    
                                                
    
                                            
			
    
                                    
    
                                
    
                                
                                

                                
    
                                    
    
                                        
                                    
    

                                    
    
				

                                        
    
                                            
    
                                                
    
                                                    
    
                                                        Posted Apr 16, 2009 04:26 PM
                                                        
                                                    
    
                                                
    
                                            
    
                                            
    
                                                

                                                
                                            
    
                                        
    

                                        
    
                                            
    
                                                
    Yeah, I expected that.  I tried to resubmit but was too late.  Anyway, I have the late version (2.04...).  It actually happened in version 2.03...  Thanks for the response and info.
    DarnComputers
    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                
    
                                                
                                            
    
                                        
    

                                        
                                        

                                    
			
    

                                    
                                
    

                                
                                
    
                                
    
                            
		
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