Could Not Get the Storage Format of the Harddisk

[tdeprato]

I downloaded and installed VirtualBox from their site. I am running Ubuntu 9.04 . I am trying to load this file: XP SP3 with IE8 2009-Apr.vhd
When I do I get this message:


Could Not Get the Storage Format of the Harddisk

Result Code:
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:
HardDisk
Interface:
IHardDisk {62551115-83b8-4d20-925f-79e9d3c00f96}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {3f4ab53a-199b-4526-a91a-93ff62e456b8}


I tired changing the IDE controller info and that did not help. Any idea where to start looking?

[cooperfdiv]

You can repair this with VHDMOUNT, or if you are running Windows 7, you can mount the drive natively in the Disk Management utility. Simply mount the VHD as a drive, and it will attempt to repair the VHD and mount it. Check the drive to make sure everything is intact. Once all looks good, detach (or unmount) it, add it back to the VirtualBox disk store and all is good to go.