After running a vmware conversion the machine does not boot – “A disk read error occured, press ctl+alt+delete to restart”
March 29th, 2010
I was converting an IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop from physical to virtual. The conversion went through without any errors but the machine would not start. In the console on bootup (after BIOS screen): “A disk read error occurred, press ctl+alt+delete to restart”. The conversion is a success, it creates the VM with no error but won’t start.
This was resolved by running the conversion again. During the conversion wizard select devices and change the default disk controller to SCSI Bus Logic. Run the conversion and boot the virtual machine.
