{"id":40,"date":"2010-01-07T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-01-07T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:36:15","slug":"windows-2000-p2v-blue-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/windows-2000-p2v-blue-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2000 P2V blue screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had two older model Compaq servers blue screen after a P2V conversion.  In each case the physical machines had a diagnostic partition (without an assigned drive letter) on disk before the boot\/C: partition.  While using the VMware Converter this volume was de-selected and not migrated to the virtual machine.  In each case the server blue screened with an error \u201cINACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE\u201d after the conversion.<\/p>\n<p>At first I believed this error to be caused by that diagnostic partition.  I tried to re-run the P2V several times and even tried including the diagnostic partition in my VM.  The problem was persistent; no matter how I used the P2V the host (cold clone\/block level agent\/file level agent\/with and without diagnostic partition) this error would occur.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of attempts I thought I was fighting a lost cause.  Finally I stumbled across an article that suggested I had a bad version of scsiport.sys and suggested several methods to replace this file.  Since I\u2019m using virtual machines and already had a Windows 2000 VM template, I deployed a copy of my Windows 2000 template and attached my P2Ved C: drive as a second drive in the server.  I copied the known working copy of SCSIPORT.SYS from C:\\WINNT\\System32\\Drivers to my second drive (E:\\WINNT\\System32\\Drivers\\SCSIPORT.SYS).  I then shutdown and removed the second drive from my temporary server and powered on the recently P2Ved guest.  Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had two older model Compaq servers blue screen after a P2V conversion. In each case the physical machines had a diagnostic partition (without an assigned drive letter) on disk before the boot\/C: partition. While using the VMware Converter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/windows-2000-p2v-blue-screens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}