0x7B BSOD Win 2003 Server - mergeide.reg applied

Hi guys,

i have a frustrating issue with one of my W2k3 P2V conversions -

I ahve W2k3 box that we are looking to virtualise in our remote data centre - the issue is that the disk image is too big to bring down over the wire so any conversions have to be done to a USB disk and as the server has to remain online whilst imaging i am using the follwoing procedure:

Physical > VMware (Using VMWare Online Converter) > USB HDD (CloneZilla Image (Offline)) > Proxmox VM (Clonezilla)

I have done this on several other machines without any issues.

I have added the mergeide.reg and still i'm getting the 0x7B error - i assume that this is due to there being no intelide.sys in the /system32/drivers foler.

I have a copy of the CloneZilla image here (1 week turnournd for a new image) - WITHOUT the files inthe folder

I'm i right in thinking that it should be possible to boot the PC using a W2k3 CD and extract the files from the recovery console to the C Drive of the VM? (im waiting for the image to copy to the VM atm)

has anyone else done this?