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What kind of backup is that? What software?
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What kind of backup is that? What software?

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EMC Avamar Disk Backup Solution. 
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The restored OS will see the VM as new hardware. &nbsp;You could do a repair install but imho you'd be better doing a fresh install and just restoring whatever data files you needed as a separate thing.
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The restored OS will see the VM as new hardware.  You could do a repair install but imho you'd be better doing a fresh install and just restoring whatever data files you needed as a separate thing.

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We got it up for the most part. Having some weird application errors but we are working on it. <br />
I think what we were doing wrong was not setting the overwrite option in Avamar when doing the OS restore. <br />
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Thanks guys.<br />

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We got it up for the most part. Having some weird application errors but we are working on it.
I think what we were doing wrong was not setting the overwrite option in Avamar when doing the OS restore.

Thanks guys.


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Ah..yes, that could very well be it.<br />
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~coolsport00
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Ah..yes, that could very well be it.

~coolsport00

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Due to hardware failure I need to restore a backup of a physical box to a VM. <br />
I created the new VM using the same OS (Server 2003 Standard)<br />
I restored the backups to the VMs But now I get<br />
I first got a &quot;load needed DLLs for hal&quot; <br />
I managed to get a copy of the hal for the fresh stage and copied it to the VM. <br />
Now I get &quot;Corrupt or missing c:\windows\system32\&quot;<br />
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Any help would be appreciated.
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Due to hardware failure I need to restore a backup of a physical box to a VM. 
I created the new VM using the same OS (Server 2003 Standard)
I restored the backups to the VMs But now I get
I first got a "load needed DLLs for hal" 
I managed to get a copy of the hal for the fresh stage and copied it to the VM. 
Now I get "Corrupt or missing c:\windows\system32\"

Any help would be appreciated.

Need to restore backup of physical macine to VMWare VM

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