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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.

Joons
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If the disk had an error or developed an error wile off for a long while and because of one of these two, there is not not much you can do yourself.

If the VM was created from the raw disk, that may be why it converted.

If the data or app is very important, consider taking the drive to a local recovery agency and see if they can recover anything.

Probably do not get your hopes up.