Inaccessible_boot_device after p2v Windows 2000 Pro SP4 to Workstation 6.5

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I am using the latest VMware Converter Standalone to p2v a physical Windows 2000 Professional SP4 PC. The PC is a standard Pentium with IDE disk from circa 2001. The disk is 20GB partitioned logically into C: and D. It converts with no errors (I did both disks into one VMDK).

When I power on the VM in VMware Workstation 6.5 (or Vmware Player 2.5) it gets to the Win 2000 boot graphic then I get a BSOD with the classic 0x7B Stop error: inaccessible_boot_device.

Is there anything I can do to get the vm to boot? I am lost for ideas, normally p2v of a basic IDE pc works flawlessly.

I'm willing to put a bounty on this as I am trying to sort this out for a client urgently.

Best Answer

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005208

I injected the SCSI driver on the target VM by attaching the VMDK to an existing VM and copying the SCSI driver into the appropriate location

for 2000, vmscsi.sys for 2003, symmpi.sys

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