User Fred Weston had a error when he tried converting his amazon ec2 windows 2008 boxes to Vmware workstation vms. He experienced a BSOD that pointed to storport.sys
ivivanov posted this answer which was confirmed by Fred Weston
You need to somehow get access to the target disks. You can use VMware Workstation to mount the target VMDK or you can temporarily attach the disk with the Windows directory to another Windows VM (in this case you should open Disk Manager and select Rescan Disks command from the Actions menu and the new virtual disk from the converted Amazon VM should become visible). After that:
* run regedit on that machine
* select HKLM hive
* from the File menu select 'Load Hive' command
* navigate to the target SYSTEM registry hive (it is under WINDOWS\system32\config\system *on the target disk* that was attached to the VM, but *not* the currently running Windows directory)
* pick a name for the new key (e. g. ec2-system)
* navigate to ec2-system\ControlSet001\Services
* search for the three drivers and delete the whole keys
* then select again the ec2-system key under HKLM
* from File menu select 'Unload Hive' command and close Regedit
* unmount the mounted VMDK or detach the target virtual disk from the "temporary" VM
Power on the converted VM
Good knowledge to have in the toolkit.
* run regedit on that machine
* select HKLM hive
* from the File menu select 'Load Hive' command
* navigate to the target SYSTEM registry hive (it is under WINDOWS\system32\config\system *on the target disk* that was attached to the VM, but *not* the currently running Windows directory)
* pick a name for the new key (e. g. ec2-system)
* navigate to ec2-system\ControlSet001\Services
* search for the three drivers and delete the whole keys
* then select again the ec2-system key under HKLM
* from File menu select 'Unload Hive' command and close Regedit
* unmount the mounted VMDK or detach the target virtual disk from the "temporary" VM
Good knowledge to have in the toolkit.
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