I had a PowerEdge 2400 with a PERC3 RAID controller and 6 hard drives in a RAID-5 array that I need to convert to a Hyper-V virutal machine.
It's running Windows Server 2003 and I'm trying to use Microsoft's DISK2VHD tool, which has worked mulitple times for me in the past, but only when the primary hard drive controller is IDE. The actual conversion of the physical disk to a VHD worked just
fine, but it would not boot into Hyper-V (2008 R2 or 2012 version). Sometimes it gives be the BSOD with 07B inaccessible boot device error. Other times it just reboots over and over again. I've tried configuring the VM to connect the VHD
to either the IDE or the SCSI controller, but it failed with both.
I'm pretty certain the problem lies with the fact that Windows on the VHD is configured for a PERC3 driver and there is no PERC3 controller in Hyper-V.
Unfortunately, I do not have the PE2400 any more, so any options involving installing a cheap IDE card or taking a new disk image can't happen. All i have is the VHD, which i can attach and access the contents of the hard drive. How can i fix the Windows installation in the VHD so it will attempt to boot up as if connected to an IDE controller?
Thanks in advance
BeekerC