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99.99% of cases it is a missing (or badly configured in the Registry) hard disk controller driver.
Spot on jaclaz, I've managed to get the vm to run by editing the following registry settings:
http://iamrobertsworry.livejournal.com/791047.html
The mistake I made was to assume Checkpoint was the cause for the Inaccessible boot device error. Even if Checkpoint were not installed, the vm would still have failed (tested this on an image without checkpoint and would still get a STOP 0x0000007b error). In fact, the only obstacle to Checkpoint in my case was in decrypting the partition so as to make the necessary registry changes (which I managed to do by booting the vm into a WinPE boot disk pre-installed with Checkpoint's disk mount utility).
I'm happy to document the steps taken in further detail if anyone thinks this would be useful to them.
Thank you to all for your replies, much appreciated.
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