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Hallo Guys
I use vbox very often but since the beta I have problems with my Harddisks in vbox. Everytime sometimes early or later I get a wired I/O Sector Errors on my Guest. I notice my datas will lost and after restart all works normal and later the same problem. On my Host I use Windows 7 x64 and I test it too with WinXP x64 SP2.

Guest Informations

General: Debian 5.0.2 32bit (Server Console Mode) (I made 3 new VM´s but nothing help!!!!)
System: PAE/NX,no VT-x
Hard Disks: I test it with SCSI,SATA,IDE Device 10 GB,20GB (Dynamic & Fixed) (Linux ex3 mountet,SWAP)
Floppy: No
Audio: No
Network: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged Adapter)
Serial Ports: No
USB: No
Shared Folders: No

Not much we can do for you since the host is a pre-release of an operating system, other than telling you to make sure you have the latest release of VBox (version 3.0.2 is out now)

Check the Host harddisk for bad sectors and such.

LineX wrote:Hallo Guys
I use vbox very often but since the beta I have problems with my Harddisks in vbox. Everytime sometimes early or later I get a wired I/O Sector Errors on my Guest. I notice my datas will lost and after restart all works normal and later the same problem. On my Host I use Windows 7 x64 and I test it too with WinXP x64 SP2.

Guest Informations

General: Debian 5.0.2 32bit (Server Console Mode) (I made 3 new VM´s but nothing help!!!!)
System: PAE/NX,no VT-x
Hard Disks: I test it with SCSI,SATA,IDE Device 10 GB,20GB (Dynamic & Fixed) (Linux ex3 mountet,SWAP)
Floppy: No
Audio: No
Network: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged Adapter)
Serial Ports: No
USB: No
Shared Folders: No

It's always best for you to check the hard disk on your host for bad sectors. Most hard disks have SMART monitoring to monitor the health of the hard disk and predict hard disk failures. If one of the SMART attributes on your host hard disk is failing, it would be best to backup your data and replace your hard disk before it's too late.