VM with NT4.0 restored Ghost gives INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

[V4Friend]

Hello VMWare specialists!

Once, not so long ago, I had a computer with a multiboot configuration: W2000 (C:) and NT4.0 SP6 (D:). I had created a Ghost 2003 image from both partitions and saved them on DVD.

Someone could obviously not stand the fact that I had that computer, because it was stolen!

Now I have a new computer running XP Pro and I want to run the above mentioned configuration in a Virtual Machine (there is some old software on both platforms that I must be able to run an it won't run on XP!)

I have created a VM for W2000 and succesfully restored the W2000 partition in it with Ghost. It works fine!

Now I also restored the NT4.0 partition on a second Virtual Disk and try to boot from that: BSOD with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Probably the driver for the SCSI-disk is not loaded by NT (it used to be an IDE HDD)

I have tried to restore the ghost-image on an IDE Virtual Disk, but Ghost won't do that

How can I make NT4 load the BusLogic driver when I cannot boot the system?

Any help would be appreciated.

V4Friend

[Liz]

Probably because it was IDE and now under VM its SCSI or the other way round, or, its changed IDE lun numbers? If its the lun number you can mount the disk, edit it and put it back, if its the drive letter thats in registry and a pain.. if its SCSI or IDE you should be able to change that.

[V4Friend]

Hello Liz (and others?),

Let's assume it's the SCSI driver: how could I change that?

[KevinG]

Post the .vmx file from the virtual machine you created to restore your NT image.

This file is located in the directory where you created the virtual machine

[Liz]

Its not even necessarily the driver, but,

if you used the conversion util, one thing you might want to try (maybe on a copy of the files) is to rerun the conversion on the guest, you do an import, if you then run the "configure machine" option on it, it puts in various vmware drivers.

[V4Friend]

Hello Kevin and Liz,

Thank you for your suggestions. I am usually no quitter so I tried to restore the NT Ghost image to a Virtual IDE (bigger than the standard 8GB this time) one more time. This time it worked

The NT4 system boots and now I can try installing the VM-tools and see if it all works.

Thanks again and I will mark this thread as answered.

V4Friend

[cogumel0]

Something that always works for me when I get that is getting a CD with checkdisk in the drive, getting it to boot from the CD and running checkdisk.

Installation CD of Windows XP or 2k will do that, get it to boot from CD, when prompted if you want to install or repair, put repair and then go to console.

On the console do chkdsk on the disk that you want to be checked. Some times this does not work by doing it just 1 time, so the 2nd time you'll have to do chkdsk /p for it to run. I always run it a 2-3 times, boot from the HDD, and always works. Has never let me down so far.

cogumel0