Windows 2000 Inaccessible Boot Device
- by Foo_Chow
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?