stop error 0x0000007b on boot bare metal recovered Win2008R2

Solution 1:

I had this Issue the other day.

We captured an image from an HP server, where they were using a very cheap RAID controller. I actually had two problems:

First, the image came out with a corrupted boot loader (I was able to fix this one using ISO Server 2008 Disk, repair mode, cmd line, i used bcdedit utility).

Second, after taking care of that, the server was blue-screening with "Stop error 0x0000007b". I used my ISO server 2008 R2 image again, go through the same procedure, until i got to the command prompt, ran regedit and load the hive from my Windows partition (in this case was D:). In order for me to fix it, i had to disable (0x4) some LSI-SAS services drivers that were installed in the original server and enable (0x0) my LSI-SCSI, because that is what i am using in my VM. It worked!

I hope this solution points others in the right direction.