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Hi there,

I managed to stuff up my Virtualbox..
I basically had a bunch of VMs running and decided to muck around and move 1 VM to another drive.
Now every time I try to install a new VM I get "ata2 master unknown device" and nothing else happens.

I've reinstalled Virtualbox and also removed the user profile data but no luck.

If you screw up your spreadsheet/document/database, and you reinstall LibreOffice, do you think that they are going to get fixed automagically? Not really. You messed up with a "document", a VM. Reinstalling VirtualBox, or changing your profile, or even creating a new profile isn't going to help you.

What might help you is to tell us exactly what you moved, from where to where. And we need to see the "recipe" of the VM, it's VBOX file. Right-click on the VM, "Show in Explorer", ZIP that chosen .vbox file and attach that to your reply.

Removed the .vdi file under storage
Then under Virtual Media Manager also removed the .vdi file
Moved the whole folder with all the files (vbox, vdi, etc) to another drive and re-added .vdi.
Then I got the Ata 2 master message

Here's the zip file for a new VM.

Thanks for looking into this!

<HardDisk uuid="{540d8b00-a17c-49c8-a513-b3805eaac1fc}" location="Server2016Core.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>

According to the "Server2016Core.vbox" recipe, you should have a VDI in the same location as the .vbox file itself, named "Server2016Core.vdi". You see, the path is relative, not an absolute one, so that means the VDI should be next to the .vbox. Is it? Do you see it in the Explorer?

The other thing that's mentioned is an ISO:

<Image uuid="{a4ce1336-d40c-49b7-87fd-69a2216f0341}" location="D:/VM stuff/Server2016.iso"/>

Is that ISO where it says it is? If not, from the VirtualBox Manager, go to the menu File » Virtual Media Manager » Optical disks, and remove any references by using the Release/Remove buttons.