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lost vhd files - Hyper-V

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 07/21/2009
From: Vlad
Message:

Hi,

I lost the partition containing the original fixed size vhd files.
However, I have snapshots. A root snapshot and a big one.
I recreated the virtual machine, but if I try to use the edit disk wizard,
it pops up an error: "the chain of virtual hard disks is broken" and "the
system cannot locate the parent virtual disk'.

Is there any chance to recover the virtual machine?

Thanks

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Re: lost vhd files - Hyper-V

Sent: 07/22/2009
From: "Benjamin Armstrong [MSFT]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

No, without the base virtual hard disk the snapshot files cannot be used.

Cheers,
Benjamin Armstrong
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Vlad wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I lost the partition containing the original fixed size vhd files.
> However, I have snapshots. A root snapshot and a big one.
> I recreated the virtual machine, but if I try to use the edit disk wizard,
> it pops up an error: "the chain of virtual hard disks is broken" and "the
> system cannot locate the parent virtual disk'.
>
> Is there any chance to recover the virtual machine?
>
> Thanks

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