Copying physical Windows 7 SSD to VMWare - Bluescreen

[arnoldgauge]

Hi all, I apologize if this is obvious, I couldn't find anything while searching.

My goal is to convert a physical Windows 7 SSD to run under VMWare Workstation. My PC is running Windows 11 Pro, Latest versions of everything installed.

1) I mounted the SSD to an external Sabrent https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0759 ... =UTF8&th=1
2) Windows recognized it. Partition table is:
a) 100MB NTFS System Reserved Mounted as D
b) Original NTFS C drive 70GB. Mounted as E: on my PC, it appears to be valid Windows 7. It has Windows, program files, and other expected directories.
c) Health (OEM Partition) 23GB. Windows doesn't recognize it.
d) Unallocated (372 GB)
3) I ran Starwin V2V (9.0.1.554)
a) P2V Option
b) Physical Disk
c) Selected the Dual Sata Bridge
d) Selected D and E Drives
e) Selected Target Local File
f) Selected VMDK
g) Selected VMWARE Workstation Growable Image, and Selected Active Windows Repair Mode
h) Everything appeared to work fine, V2V Created snapshots of D and E and ended up with a 21GB file. Took 10 min or so. Converted Sucessfully.
4) Created VMWARE Image, pointed to the virtual disk
5) Windows 7 Appears to boot, but no matter what I do, it blue-screens with a 0x0000007B

I've tried various permutations of IDE vs SATA controllers vs SAS, with no luck. System repair will run, but doesn't find a problem. From what I can see, the blue screen implies that the hard disk partition isn't mounted correctly.

Any suggestions?

Thanks all!

[yaroslav (staff)]

There's an issue with the drivers rather than StarWind V2V.
Do you have any custom drivers installed?