Hi,
I am tring to restore a Server 2008 R2 Standard Ed (full installation) RTM to a virtual machine, from a full Windows Server Backup image taken of a physical machine (Dell PE 2970). All restores fine, and looks good until it tries to boot, when a Stop Error occurs, with the following error:
*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)
I believe the non-bracketed portion means "INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE".
There is only the System Reserved volume + a C: volume (system volume) + F: volume (DVD drive) on the original server. It has had other volumes in it before, which are correctly listed in the MountedDevices registry key, but they have not been physically present for a while.
The virtual disk I'm trying to restore to is several GBs larger than the original virtual disk on the RAID controller (2 disks in RAID 1).
I can't figure out why the server isn't booting. I've successfully restored Server 2008 machines from physical machines to VMs before, including servers using hardware RAID cards (e.g. Dell SAS 6/iR). The only difference I can think of is that this is Server 2008 R2, this is a 2 proc server (I've tried several virtual proc numbers on the VM to no avail), and the RAID controller is PERC 6/i, and this is the first server I've tried with that particular RAID card.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if it's to point out that I'm looking in the wrong direction.
Many thanks,
Chris