Anyway I got it running by playing with the hardware version and configuration of the VM in Workstation.

I reverted to version 10, and played with the HDD.

So thanks for your help/

No.

The whole reason for converting the VM to VMWare is to make it easier to extract the 32 bit applications for upgrading. The applications are NOT compatible with later versions of Windows. They need to run in the 32-bit OS to be converted so that they can run on an up to date operating system.

I recently attempted the conversion of a Hyper-V virtual hard disk to one for use in VMWare workstation/player. The conversion succeeded but when I created a VM and tried to reboot from the converted disk the VM blue screens during boot (after the splash screen) and goes into a never ending crash re...