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XP conversion boots in safe mode but not normal (Read 86 times)
IDJay
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XP conversion boots in safe mode but not normal
Jul 17th, 2010 at 5:42am
 
Newbie here.  Not sure if this is a converter question or a player question.  I don't want to double post so if there is a moderator please place in the correct spot.

I converted my old (5yrs) laptop (XP sp3) that has a broken screen.  I'd like to keep everything as is in a VM on my new machine.  Did conversion and all looked ok. 
Windows tries to boot, stops and I get a blue screen ...0007E error then a quick VMware page and back to a boot menu couning down to try a normal boot in 30 seconds.  It will do this forever.  If I select safe mode with networking it boots the machine fine.
If I look at device manager I get a warning messages on "base system Device" and "video controller (VGA compatible)".  If I view hidden devices I see that I have an warning/error at "visual NDMonitor", and "Partmgr".   Also windows does a hardware check and says it found new hardware and wants to install a video controller but if I select do it, it just says can't find driver and my hardware may not work properly.  I think it tries to find a driver for another device also.
I have tried to search for solutions but have yet to find anything.
I tried installing VM tools but no help. 
should I delete the bad drivers and hope windows rebuilds?
I suspect it is some hardware driver issue thing.  (moving from a gateway to Toshiba) 
Should I try another conversion with different settings? (old sys only had 172MB ram so VM asked for that,  also created serial and Parallel ports that I disable as the new system does not have these.)
Any simple way to identify offending driver / hardware configuration issues?
Any suggestions? 

I'd really love to get this v machine up and running.  Thanks for all the help and wisdom.  All help and suggestions appreciated.
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