Hyper-V Boot failure on VHD made with Acronis

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hoping someone can advise on my problem, I am running Hyper-V core and trying to create my first VM for testing purposes. Using Acronis True Image echo server with UR I converted a Seerver 2000 tib to VHD. I then copied this across to the Hyper-V local drive and created a new VM pointing the hard drive to the vhd image.

When I boot this up all I get is "Boot failure. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot media in selected Boot device". The original server had SCSI disks, the Hyper-V server doesn't, but I have ensured that it boots from an IDE disk and that it is in fact booting from that not the CD.

I can only imagine this is caused by the SCSI disks on VHD but cannot for the life of me work out how to fix, I have several of these I need to do so starting to worry now!

I can confirm that when I did this from tib to vmdk it worked first time using VMware on a laptop.

Any help very much appreciated.

Gary

Best Answer

Your VM has the wrong Boot Device drivers (and possibly HAL), on Win5.1 this will come up as a STOP 7B.

Injecting the correct drivers is a bit of a hassle after the fact. MS has an article on fixing this in XP (it's basically the exact same thing in 2K).

It boils down to:

  • Mount the VHD on a Win7 or similar machine.
  • Load the registry hives, merge the driver information, unload.
  • Inject the driver files (there's only a few, like 5 files).
  • Unmount the VHD

Note - Doing a P2V on a Win2K server is going to be pretty rough. That's an 11 year old OS. You're way past time to ditch it and upgrade to something newer.

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