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I beg for everyone patients, I'm new to computers.

I backed up a desktop using macrium to a disk image.

I want to deploy this image to vmware 15.5 for workstations on my windows 10 pro workstation.

Needless to say, macrium is not a format that can be deployed to VMware.

I tried mounting the image to a volume on the PC but i don't know how to write that volume to an iso.

All the imaging tools i have on my machine (and i have many) would either output and .img or throw an eror : "file is to big".

Can someone recommend the right tool or a correct way to deploy a disk image made with Macrium to VMWare?

Elisha Habinsky
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You might need for the following a version of VMWare Workstation, as I'm not sure that you can do it with VMware Player.

  • Create a bootable Macrium Rescue Media of ISO format
  • Use VMWare to create a virtual machine of the same type, without installing an operating system (yet)
  • Set the Rescue ISO as the DVD drive of the VM
  • You will need to assure that the VM can see the backup
  • Boot the VM into Macrium and restore the backup.

Note that missing drivers might cause problems. Your first action if the VM boots successfully should be to install VMWare Tools.

harrymc
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