If you are trying to run VMware's P2V application on a disk and you are getting the message "Sorry, a supported guest operating system could not be found on the selected disk" then it either means there is not one there or some other things need to be tweaked.

There are two main causes of this error message and the first one is that the disk is not an active disk. The disk you are trying to P2V needs to be active! So when restoring your image, be sure to select active.

The other reason is your boot.ini is wrong as P2V checks the boot ini. This normally happens because you have imaged a whole disk of a physical server which has the operating system on the second partition. Then you restored the second partition as the first one in the VM and now it is wrong.... Mostly this is caused by hardware partitions like Compaq's 16mb tools partition.

So change the boot.ini to look similar to the one below if it is the first partition. If you need help with boot.ini, what it does and how to understand it I suggest you google it and understand it before you make changes.

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server" /fastdetect