On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:39 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Running the VMware converter > tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi > image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing > the same thing to a vmware server (v1) image file over a network share > worked. Has anyone seen that before? --- Well for those that must have a Windows OS heres the hack: You must go to microsoft.com search for the tools to allow that. What it does is Relax The Windows IDE Checks so the disk or image can be used as a VM or on other hardware. You must also have the same ACPI Options in your hypervisor. This must be done before you use the vmware tools to create the image. John