Migrating VMWare VM’s via Clonezilla

Having a very odd issue migrating VMWare Windows machines over to PROXMOX using Clonezilla and wondering if anyone else has seen this (and has a solution!).

Here is what I am doing
In the VM on VMWare

• Remove VMware tools
• Run the mergeide.reg file
• Make sure atapi.sys, intelide.sys, pciide.sys and pciindex.sys are present in %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers
• Shutdown
• Boot the VM backup but into Clonezilla

In the VM on Proxmox

• Create a new VM with the same disk size, same RAM and CPU settings
• Attach the clonzilla ISO and boot

I have tried two methods within Clonezilla,

• “savedisk” to an NFS file system then restoring into the PROXMOX VM
• “disk-to-disk” direct from the source VM to the destination VM

When I boot up the PROXMOX VM the console states “Booting from hard disk” and that’s as far as it gets. And this has happened for both methods of migration.