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• Disk and the virtual disk drive records corrupted (code 19)

  I recently had a virus and it corrupted my drive and drive virtual and perhaps deleted records. I tried all methods on the site of Microsoft Support here and not to have borne fruit. I uninstalled the drivers and quite well done all recommended from the page (except run a fix because it cannot find the driver). I also added new keys in regedit and it has not fixed either. Is it possible to replace records that have been corrupted, or missing, or I'll have to do a wipe or something to fix? Thank you.

  Sorry, I don't really know what to do; I guess if you need a tool for editing with screenshots I can do.

  You can check the following registry key? :

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

  Is there a 'name' UpperFilters and LowerFiltersin the registry for this key, in the right window?

  If so, what is 'Data' for these names?

• Unable to connect to the virtual disk Service, Virtual Disk Manager Interface not registered

  I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on this laptop as a new installation about six months ago.  Since then, I don't think I ever ran diskmgmt.  Today, I joined a new external hard drive usb, it reported the drivers installed fine, but then the installation bombed at the beginning.  I went to verity, what had happened and has run diskmgmt.msc (as an administrator), but she came back with the message "Unable to connect to the virtual disk Service" and also a small OK msgbox appeared with the title "Virtual Disk Manager" and the "Interface not registered" message

  I disconnected the USB hard drive and tried again diskmgmt, but no change.

  I restarted in safe mode, tried diskmgmt, but no change.

  I ran sfc/scannow, but it has reported that it found no errors.

  I checked that the virtual disk service has been configured as a textbook in services.msc, and event viewer showed that when I ran diskmgmt he started VDS and then stopped VDS.

  I tried again, but still not like before.

  Is there some dll I can't regsrv32?

  Thank you

  Marc

  Hello

  I suggest you to return the items for the following responses from Microsoft, he says same issues with trying the troubleshooting steps and check if it helps.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-hardware/cant-start-disk-management-unable-to-connect-to/31898500-9d84-4CB5-9ba3-c1f42e3b1ace

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-hardware/problems-with-Vista-after-unplugging-by-external/093f1660-160F-478f-b81a-493e963ffd9a

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771775.aspx

  Note: it also applies to Windows 7.

  Hope the information is useful.

• Could not load the virtual disk manager

  I am operating Windows 7 SP1. At one point, I lost the ability to use the virtual disk manager. I've scoured the web and many forums to find answers and none worked. I tried to repair windows, run sfc/scannow, etc stopping before you reinstall windows, which some people have suggested that I have many software loaded and am not sure that this will not happen again once I loaded the software again.

  It is a "backdoor" way to force launch disk management? My need is to change disks on some of the hardware devices, such as DVD players and card readers.

  Would appreciate any advice or suggestions... Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Thanks for the reply.

  Glad to know that you were able to solve the problem. Your efforts to solve this problem is appreciated. Feel free to post your request here on the Forums of Windows, we would be happy to help you.

  Thank you.

• VMDKMounter gets error "could not open the virtual disk.

  I have two Win7 x 64 virtual machines running fine with VMware Fusion 4.1.2.  I installed VMDKMounter from VMware 3.1.3 and OSXFuse 2.3.9.  I can ride one of the files hard with VMDKMounter very well, but others told "Cannot open the virtual disk" when I try to mount it.

  8 June 14:43:27 hoth [0 x 0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter [2394]: could not parse the instant string ' / Users/finchr/Documents/VirtualMachines.localized/hoth.univ.dir.wwu.edu.vmwarevm/hoth.univ.dir.wwu.edu.vmx '. 8 June 14:43:27 hoth [0 x 0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter [2394]: will not be able to take an informed decision, based on partial information. 8 June 14:43:27 hoth [0 x 0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter [2394]: mount the drive read-only instead. 8 June 14:43:27 hoth [0 x 0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter [2394]: failed to open the disc: disc encoding error (261993021117)

  The virtual machine that VMDKMounter fails to mount was created by VMware vCenter Converter 5.0 of a physical machine.  The virtual machine that works was created in VMware Fusion 4.

  Of course, the hard I really want to ride with VMDKMounter is he who fails.  No idea how to make so that he can get?

  Well, I see nothing in the disc DescriptorFile which prevents the hard mounted.

  So right now, you can mount other hard files, but not this one, then I have two suggestions...

  It would be to use vmware-vdiskmanager to create a new hard that will not go up and the other would create a new empty hard, then add it to a virtual machine, as well as one that will not go up and then start with appropriate optical disk or an ISO Image containing the appropriate tools/utilities in order to image the drive to the new empty.  I usually use Symantec Norton Ghost for operations like this.  Then maybe a new mounts with VMDKMounter.

• Reason: The called function can only be performed on partial strings. Please open the virtual disk parent.

  I have a problem in which a snapshot has become corrupted, so I had followed the instructions through this forum to point her load the file to the correct file.  However, once I restarted the operating system virtual weeks later I now get this error.  I have attached the log.  Any help?  I think that eventually I want to reinstall the boot camp because she does not need to be run in parallel with the mac operating system.

  Check that the basic disk "Windows Vista.vmdk" is not elsewhere on the host before you delete.  Using the following command in a Terminal.

  mdfind "Windows Vista.vmdk"
  

  With regard to the installation of Windows natively in Boot Camp, which is not something Apple VMware so take a look at the Boot Camp Assistant documentation.

  / Applications/utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app

  / Applications/utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Documentation.pdf

• What is the right way to expand the virtual disk and then the OS partition?

  I have a Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine VMware.  I have

  you want to increase the size of the hard drive.  It currently has a 50 GB

  partition on a 50 GB VHD.  I increase the size of the

  50 GB to 100 GB in VMware virtual hard drive.  Then, can I use

  Windows disk management to increase the size of my partition of the

  side OS to use all the 100GB he sees now?  Or will

  corrupt my data or cause a problem as I really need to

  use a third party tool like EAUSUS inside Windows to extend Windows

  on the size of the virtual hard disk?

  In fact the way you describe, resize the virtual disk and then developing the partition are the way to go. But there are some things that you should be

  aware of.

  -If the VHD is on an IDE controller, you may not be able to resize the virtual disk. In this case use the converter. With the converter, you can resize the disk including the partition and - if desired - replace the IDE controller by a SCSI controller.

  -If you have only one partition under XP (that is, drive c :)) you cannot extend the partition with the diskmanager/diskpart. In this case, start your virtual machine from a CD/DVD Vista/Windows 7 in Repair Mode, open a command line and use "diskpart" from there to "extend" your partition.

  André

• the virtual disk parent changed

  I just did something really stupid and hope someone here could help me...

  I have a virtual host named dev4, that has a snapshot created a year ago.  It has several virtual disks, one of them is dev4 - 000001.vmdk, who has a parent disk dev4.vmdk.

  Today I come to create a new virtual machine named dev5.   My intention was to disparage dev4 and use dev5 moving forward, so I want all my data in the virtual disks of dev4 is available in dev5.

  Now, it's the stupid part.  I added two dev4 - 000001.vmdk and dev4.vmdk (one at a time) to the new machine virtual (dev5) and mounted to them (I was running Fedora in two virtual machines).    It's really successful, but then I can't repeat this process and dev4 won't boot either.  "I got the error message was.

  Details: Cannot open the disc "C:\Virtual Machines\dev4\dev4-000001.vmdk" or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  Reason: The virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created.

  "

  Apparently the action to add the dev4.vmdk drive to dev5 or mount in dev5 led her to change.  I have a lot of data in dev4 - 000001.vmdk which are not saved.  Is it possible I could get these restored data?  Right now I can not open this vmdk due the above error.    Any help would be much appreciated!

  Sorry Peter - I guess I was kinda hard...

  It's just that in so many cases users who have encountered a problem with the snapshots do themselves more damage by acting in quick.

  Please read my full vmdk-manual so that you are better prepared next time.

  And now - please read this

  http://sanbarrow.com/VMDK-HOWTOs.html#editvmdk

  We will need it then

  _________________________

  VMX-settings- WS FAQ -[MOAcd | http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html]- VMDK-manual

• Increase the size of the virtual disk.

  I just installed Windows virtual PC on Windows 7 64 bit and I try to install a program of 6 GB.  He said that there is not enough memory.
  The size of the virtual disk in less than 2 GB and I can't find any way to increase this size.  I tried to create a second virtual disk with more memory, but the same error comes back.  Is there a way I can increase the size of the primary virtual disk?

  Post here http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/threads or here http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7programs/threads instead.

• When running Disk Management, get the error - failed to connect to the virtual disk Service.

  When I run the Snap on the local server disk management, I get an error message in the status bar: unable to connect to the virtual disk Service.

  Thanks, I have tried these things and nothing has solved the problem.  Here's what I did:

  (a) check the VDS service was manual and failures later per second are 'take no action '.
  ANSWER: Yes to manual and following, second has not changed to "restart the service" of "non-action".
   
  (b) sfc/scannow as administrator
  ANSWER: the System File Checker has found no problem (program reported no problem and findstr/c: "[SR]" on CBS.log doesn't have the list of issues)

  (c) restore to a previous system restore point
  ANSWER: I have tried restore points several more early, each of them failed

• Copy of the virtual disk for use by another virtual machine

  Hi all! How can I copy a virtual disk file to a location for future use by another virtual machine? I tried to just copy the hard, but it did not work for me - the copy is about 1 KB size and I can not add it as a hard drive on another virtual machine. Can someone help me?

  OK, so this client web vSphere that you use, in this case browse datastore doesn't show you the two files.

  Please follow the steps below

  Please go to Cluster & host inventory

  Select your ESXi host

  go to the tab 'Manage'-> settings-> Security-> Service Profile, and then click the button CHANGE

  Start the SSH service.

  If please use WinSCP to connect to your Esxi host and navigate to the folder of the virtual machine as in the screenshot to the suite, I navigated to a folder that is my VM name: Win10A

  and it has a virtual disk, if I want to take the virtual disk of this virtual machine to a different VM, I need to copy the two files that are highlighted.

  the two are to train your virtual disk.

  

  Download these two files and download them to another folder where you second VM resides, then try to tie it with this virtual machine.

• How can I change the size of the virtual disk by default?

  Hello

  At work, we decided to start to allocate more disk space for new virtual machines that we create. and every time I create a new virtual machine, and I pass by the Configuration, the name and location, storage, reviews of operating system and network options. I get to create a disc of the options and the size of the virtual disk is set to 16 GB by default. and then I would need to change before the new virtual machine to a larger number. I thought to myself whence this 16 GB by default is set and is it possible for me to change this value by default for example 30 GB, so whenever I have create a VM I wouldn't need to change this to 30 GB.

  Thank you for taking the time to read this discussion.

  Best regards

  S.A

  It would be a feature "nice to have", if we could set up by default to different operating systems. However, I am not aware of a way to do it. The only thing you can do in a cluster is to create a VM template and clone the new virtual machines from the model.

  André

• VMWare Player installation and Installation of the software in the virtual disk

  Hi people,

  I installed VMWare game in the free Version. I want to use the virtual disk for a Windows XP operating system. I have the following question for my main system (8.1 Windows 64 bit system stand-alone system).

  1.

  I installed a Windows XP 64-bit with SP 2 system. In this virtual disk, I installed a software that needs several software components. I managed to install all the components, but one. This component is WindowsInstaller-KB893803-package x 86 lot. If Intry to install the following error notice appears: "Ce KB893803v2 is for a different hardware platform." How can I make this software to obtain the virtual hardware information (i.e. not information of the current build-in components for Windows 8.1).

  2.

  While I did all the settings in Windows XP SP2 in the virtual disk on 'German' keyboard assignment is American. How can I change this?

  3.

  I have a 64-bit Windows 8.1 system on my computer (I think it said 'Host system'). Can I install a Windows XP 32-bit system in the Ramdisk anyway?

  Please answer in detail. I thank in advance for your answers.

  Kind regards. Mainze

  
  

  Don't worry too much on the OS host and/or physical hardware like handles of VMware Player, which is required to run Supportepar OSes as guests, for the most part, a layer of virtualized hardware.  Windows XP 32-bit should work fine in VMware Player on your 64-bit Windows 8.1 host.

• Consolidation of many to one of the virtual disks?

  Hello world

  I use a XP client inside a Windows 7 host (using 8 workstations).

  In the configuration of my XP virtual machine I previously assigned (of 50 gigabytes) of disk space into separate virtual folders, about 2 GB each, as shown below.

  

  I now want to have a single vmdk file, with the pre-allocated 50 GB of capacity.

  Is it possible that I can achieve this goal, while keeping my VM in tact? For example can I create a second virtual disk, and then use a cloning tool (from the client) BONE to make a copy to the new virtual drive?

  Here, any help will be greatly appreciated.

  Kind regards

  DAVO

  Hello world

  This can indeed be done! Because I started with a scalable, split, virtual disk, there were several steps; Here's the gist of these measures-

  (1) using the vmware-vdiskmanager merge files into a single.

  http://hostilecoding.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/VMware-merge-multiple-VMDKs-into-single.html

  Note: when running this utility do not forget to include the '2' parameter, which refers to the creation of a virtual disk prealloue, otherwise the following steps (use the shrinkvd program will NOT work!).

  Here is a screenshot of the order that worked for me-

  

  (2) add the newly created virtual disk, 'merged.vmdk' to the existing virtual machine, using these installation instructions.

  https://www.VMware.com/support/WS5/doc/ws_disk_add_virtual.html

  (3) remove the existing virtual machine virtual drive

  (4) to start the Virtual Machine (you will probably be asked if you have moved or copied the VM, I responded with "Proposed").

  (Optionally)-rename the virtual disk of "merged" into something else by renaming the files in the ".vmx" and "hard" files.

  (5) using the shrinkvd resize the virtual disk

  http://www.Softpedia.com/get/system/system-miscellaneous/shrinkvd.shtml

  

  Above, note that the first time, I ran the command it failed with the message "ddb.deletable" is the crux of the problem. I just deleted this line in the relevant file "hard" and the command is represented.

  Now, when I boot on my virtual XP I use only 24 GB of space, and I am able to transfer the Virtual Machine to a smaller drive. in this case a 30 Gig old SSD.

  I hope this helps others.

  Kind regards

  DAVO

• How can I increase the size of the virtual disk after vm already created

  Hi all

  I seem to have underestimated the amount of disk space that I would need for my virtual machine. I'm running out of space on my c: partition and would like to extend a 50 GB additinoal.

  I figured it would be pretty simple, so I turned off the VM and entered the settins of the virtual machine > and click on disc 1, but everything is gray out. I would like to take this space to the

  physical disk rather that reduce my e: partition and then increase the c:

  I know there is an option to create a floppy disk to addtinal but I don't think that will help me expand the C: partition.

  Any advice would be greatly appreciated

  Thank you

  Phil

  

  Yes, you will need to remove the snapshot. Note that 'Delete' merges actually all deltas in the base disk, i.e. you will not lose any data.

  André