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BSOD after Restore - ATIH 2011

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Hi all,

I am currently trying to backup and restore a Windows 2000 Professional from a physical machine into a Virtual Machine using VMWare Workstation Pro 12. The backup and restore process worked without any errors, however when I tried to start-up the VM after the restore, I am faced with the following BSOD error:

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF681B84C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

Refer to your Getting Started manual for more information on troubleshooting Stop errors.

The steps I did during the entire process are as follows:

1. Do a full backup on my physical Windows 2000 Professional machine
2. Create a new VM with Windows 2000 Professional OS using an iso file
3. Created a sufficiently big C partition on the VM during setup
4. Ran full setup for Windows 2000 Professional on the VM. It works fine. Same OS version with the physical Windows 2000 Professional that I am trying to transfer.
5. Do a full disk restore on the VM.
6. BSOD appears

Does anyone have any idea / faced this issue before? What I have understood from reading on other sites is that it may be due to the different drivers used in the physical Windows 2000 and the VM that I initially created. I have already tried to switch the VM drive to SATA, IDE and SCSI to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Anson,

In order to do what you are trying would require the use of the Acronis Universal Restore utility which as described in KB document: 13671: Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack: Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore    is a module that allows changing Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL.dll) and install mass storage boot device drivers into the system.

The further issue that you face is that according to KB document: 13672: Acronis Universal Restore of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack: Supported Operating Systems - your Windows 2000 OS is not listed as supported.

Acronis Universal Restore supports the following operating systems:

  • Windows XP SP3
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  • Windows Vista SP2 (all editions)
  • Windows 7 (all editions)

This means that you can restore system images of the listed operating systems to a machine with dissimilar hardware.