I took a HDD out of a dead PC (,which used to run Windows Vista) and virtualized it into vhdx using disk2VHD. After converting the VHDX to VMDK, I attached the drive to a new virtual machine on VMWare Workstation. But I can't even boot into Safe Mode ending up in the dreaded blue screen, error codes being: stop: 0x0000007b (0x8059EBB0, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
I'd like to keep the drive since it contains data that can be only read using a proprietary software that I can no longer download or reinstall. Can you please point out what I should be working on next?
I tried
- changing disk type(from SCSI to IDE to SATA) in virtual machine settings.
- booting from installation media to do auto repair, which complained it cannot be automatically fixed
,all of which failed without error codes. I ran chkdsk /f and it output no errors.
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
- you possibly haven't set up the virtual machine correctly, or, perhaps this article may provide some help (not really 100% your situation, but there may be some insight)vmware windows vista stop: 0x0000007b