After a motherboard crashed I needed some specific settings and accounts out of the machine to transfer to another computer for a user. While most files can just be mounted and copied over from a slaved usb to sata converter, email accounts, Non Microsoft program settings and other specific data sometimes cannot be.

I Tried creating a VHD from the whole physical hard drive first using sysinternals, Disk2VHD. That created a vhd that I was able to mount, but still got the 0x0000007b error trying to boot.
I then mounted the physical drive in raw mode described in a previous article, same exact error message.

That meant that the drivers were incorrect for the virtual image computer. so I found a tool to fix error when booting to a volume of different hardware. Mount the vhd, add a cdrom image of Paragon_Adaptive_Restore_2010.iso and boot. Use the Adjust OS settings and Bam Everything booted up like a charm.