I was using my virtual machine and suddenly it locked up. The session aborted and now the hard drive is inaccessible. What can I do?
I tried running the "vboxmanage internalcommand repairhd -format VDI <filename>" utility but it is returning:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>vboxmanage internalcommands repairhd -format
VDI "REMOVED"
VBoxManage.exe: error: VDI: invalid header in 'REMOVED'
VBoxManage.exe: error: Error code VERR_VD_IMAGE_REPAIR_IMPOSSIBLE at F:\tinderbo
x\win-4.3\src\VBox\Storage\VDI.cpp(3088) in function int __cdecl vdiRepair(const
char *,struct VDINTERFACE *,struct VDINTERFACE *,unsigned int)
Unable to open VDI after aborted session
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Re: Unable to open VDI after aborted session
Where have you seen documentation of "internalcommands repairhd"? As far as I can tell that (very obscure) command is only relevant to VHDs, and it does a very specific fix, it is not a panacea.
If your VDI is corrupted then the only sure cure is to restore it from a backup.
What does CloneVDI say if you use it to try to open this VDI?
If your VDI is corrupted then the only sure cure is to restore it from a backup.
What does CloneVDI say if you use it to try to open this VDI?
Re: Unable to open VDI after aborted session
I don't have a backup unfortunately. I don't have enough hdd space to back up my VMs. This one was 50GB by itself... Sad that this would happen from a random crash.
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Re: Unable to open VDI after aborted session
I'm afraid we can't control what happens on a Windows host when it crashes.
Check the VDI with CloneVDI.
Check the VDI with CloneVDI.