On you Mac, open Open Boot Camp Assistant. This issue is caused by a failure to install the driver for the VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device. There was also an addition of a new 100GB thin provisioned VMDK that is basically a mirror'd VMDK of the original 100GB VMDK. OS disk volume becomes read-only and fails to boot. Labels: 0x0000007B, inaccessible boot device, system letter, system reserved partition, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2 1 comment: Anonymous Augat 3:40 PM The INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bug check frequently occurs because of a boot device failure. Method 2: For Inaccessible Boot Device Server 2016 Fix, Uninstall newly installed device drivers or Software. The new installation is not taken into account. When booting natively, my Windows install with BSOD on an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE exception.
Re: 'Inaccessible boot device' at 1st setup reboot Whistler. Ensure that you run any procedures after booting Windows in Safe mode. The general boot devices include hard drive, SSD, CD/DVD disc, USB drive and so on. Vmware inaccessible boot device Inaccessible boot device after uninstalling VMWare Tools.