Windows 2000 Inaccessible Boot Device

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Published on 2014-06-02T01:14:24Z Indexed on 2014/06/02 3:36 UTC
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I am working with a machine that had its motherboard die. The machine is running Windows 2000 for legacy software. After the motherboard died I used disk2vhd to perform a physical to virtual transfer. The drive data seemed to copy over to the vhd file well. However, whenever i try to boot I get a message saying Inaccessible Boot Device

So far I have tried several things to fix it.

fixMBR
fixBoot
chkdsk
windows 2000 automated repair

Also, I have attempted to open the registry of the vhd without any success. There is another fix that i have seen suggested that requires editing the registry. Is it possible to open a Windows 2000 hive in another OS or another copy of Windows 2000?

One other thing to note is that the error appears in all of Virtual PC 2007, Hyper-V and VMWare Player.

Does anyone know how to get past this?

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