I am using VMware Workstation 9, I have a laptop hard drive (which is connected via USB) that has a Win7 (x64) on it which would be bootable if it were installed into a laptop. I want to convert it to a virtual machine so I can access it on my desktop machine. I have read some posts referring to workstation 5 but I'm not sure on the exact syntax or operational order for the instructions that were given. I have created a new VM and attached the source disk using a physical drive...but since neither the source nor destination are on the C:\ drive I'm not sure how to get it fixed so it works how I want it to.
here is what I have:
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r E:\School\My Virtual Machines\laptop\test2.vmdk -t 0 E:\School\My Virtual Machines\laptop1\test3.vmdk
I've tried to enclose the source disk and destination disk in <> and it errors out.
test2.vmdk has the physical drive mounted but of course it BSODs when I boot it up because I haven't fixed the drivers yet.
Any help in lamen terms would be most helpful.