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I'm trying to clone an old SCSI hard drive partition that has a clients Windows 2000 server setup. They have multiple old ASP scripts with Access databases that I can't get to work on a fresh install. This script is from 2001 and there is no info about it on the internet. I can't get these scripts to work on a modern Windows machine or a fresh Windows 2000 virtual machine. There is something I'm missing, but can't find it. I've abandon trying to move it, so I want to clone the hard drive.

I boot the machine into System Rescue CD and use DD to clone the drive. I used the command "dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=/mnt/c.img bs=512 conv=noerror,sync". It creates the img file, there are about 4 reading error messages. (eg dd: reading `/dev/sdb2': Input/output error). When converting the c.img file with "VBoxManage convertdd sdb.raw sdb.vdi --format VDI" and using it in a virtual machine it won't boot.

When I boot that machine with a Windows 2000 boot disc I get the following: It should only be one 4GB partition. :/
What am I doing wrong? I the Windows 2000 machine still boots, but the hardware is about 12 years old.

You did clone only the 2nd partition "sdb2", that gave you a virtual disk file without a partition table.
To use it as a virtual disk you would need to clone the whole disk "sdb".

Perhaps it's about time you read a recent user manual too. E.g. "convertdd" has been obsolete deprecated syntax for longer than I've been using VirtualBox, which is 7 years and counting.