This issue occurs because of a race condition. This race condition occurs when the Sysprep command tries to stop the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service and the VMware tool ...

Although Microsoft does not provide support for computers set up with tools other than Sysprep, the reality is that many system administrators don’t use it, due to the difficulties of working ...

According to this guide Sysprep can be used to prepare a machine for migration from one motherboard to another. The problem is that the old board is dead, so I can't follow this procedure.