I had a physical Windows Server 2003 machine fail that needed to be recovered. I was able to pull the drives out and image them with Acronis. I then was able to convert the image into a VMDK and load it on a ESXi 5.5 host. I created a new VM and attached the vmdk. Now when I try to boot the VM as soon as I see the Server 2003 splash screen the machine crashes with a 0x000007b Blue Screen. I'm assuming it has something to do with SCSI drivers. I can attach the vmdk to another VM and access it. I've tried using a BartPE boot disk but I can't access the drive when I do that. I need to get the VM working since it has a lot of archived data on it. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
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