bc9am Posted February 24, 2006 Posted February 24, 2006 Hi,I am trying to do a System state restore of a Windows 2000 SP4 server to a VMWare instance. I installed a base copy as the VMWare server and then restored the C drive, and then the SystemState. I took note of the boot.ini before and after the System State restore, and it did not change.However when I boot up after the restore I get the Inaccessible Boot Device BSOD. I was under the impression that a SS restore made sure that the current device drivers were kept to allow it to boot.Does anyone have any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?
cluberti Posted February 24, 2006 Posted February 24, 2006 Is the disk controller the same on the machine the W2K image came from and the new VMWare machine? If they aren't, you'll get this error. This isn't a boot.ini issue, it's likely a driver issue. Can you boot into safe mode?
Hamins Posted February 24, 2006 Posted February 24, 2006 Is your physical HDD an IDE, and have you selected the Virtual VMWARE HDD as SCSI ?
bc9am Posted February 25, 2006 Author Posted February 25, 2006 The disk controller is different as the original machine was a real HP server.They are both SCSI disks.
nmX.Memnoch Posted February 26, 2006 Posted February 26, 2006 (edited) System State Data backups are designed for OS restores on the same hardware. It'll restore boot files and the registry. The registry part of the restore includes what hardware is/was installed on the system at the time of the System State Data backup.Did you verify whether or not it'll boot into Safe Mode as cluberti asked? Edited February 26, 2006 by nmX.Memnoch
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