inaccessible_boot_device after p2v Windows 2000 Pro SP4 to Workstation 6.5

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Published on 2009-06-01T07:24:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 14:32 UTC
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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.

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