VMWare Fusion to Bootcamp

Winclone
1

I have a VMWare Fusion instance of WIndows 10. I would like to clone that and then create an ISO (or some other format) to use for Bootcamp.

Is that possible?

2

I was able to create an image to a USB drive from my VMWare Fusion Windows 10 installation using Acronis.
I was then able to use Winclone to clone that to the Bootcamp drive, no I’m not able to boot.

3

Try booting it up in VMWare fusion from the Boot Camp partition, then uninstall and reinstall the boot camp drivers. Then try booting to the partition.

tim

4

You can’t run the Boot camp installer on a VMWare instance of Windows 10, I get the “This software is not compatible with this machine type.”

5

So here’s my issue.

  1. Was able to create a clone of a Windows 10 VMWare Fusion installation.
  2. I restored that clone to a Bootcamp drive successfully.
  3. When I boot that boot camp drive, I get “Innaccessable boot drive”
  4. That drive WILL actually boot properly using VMWare Fusion

What is the issue and how can I solve this?

Thanks,
Gary

6

The boot camp installer folder has individual drivers within the folder. You can try installing them individually as well.

tim

7

I’ll give that a shot.

8

Tries this, it didn’t work. I don’t understand how a Bootcamp drive will boot fine under VMWare Fusion and not work under boot camp. Since this drive was created from Winclone, I’m a bit perplexed.

9

It is related to drivers. VMWare can boot with minimal drivers, since it presents a vanilla hardware to the OS. When Windows boots natively, the mass store driver can prevent booting. Did the drivers install correctly?

10

They did not. I tried individually installing each driver and running through the installation process.

I’m sort of stuck.