Change UUID of Virtual Box vdi

Asked By Antoine D Hanson 0 points N/A Posted on - 08/11/2014

Hello,

I have changed the UUID of Virtual Box and this error appeared and failed to open the hard disk C. I would like to Undo the changes but I don’t know how to do this. Can anyone help me please with this error ? I did something wrong ?

Thank you !

VirtualBox – Error

Failed to open the hard disk C:

UsersRandall.VirtualBoxHardDisksWindowsXP-Copy-Copy.vdi.

Cannot register the hard disk ‘C:

UsersRandall.VirtualBoxHardDisksWindowsXP-Copy-Copy.vdi.

With UUID {0441cc4e-ac6e-4937-a761-ba59d341771d} because a hard disk ‘C:

UsersRandall.VirtualBoxHardDisksWindowsXP-Copy-Copy.vdi. with UUID

{0441cc4e-ac6e-4937-a761-ba59d341771d} already exists in the media registry

(‘C:UsersRandall.VirtualBoxVirtualBox.xml’).

Details

Result Code: E_INVALIDARG (0X80070057)

Component: VirtualBox

Interface: IVirtualBox {3f36e024-7fed-4f20-a02c-9158a82b44e6}

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Answered By points N/A #180526

Change UUID of Virtual Box vdi

Hello,

Changing the UUID of the VDI is quite easy using VirtualBox’s default command line. In order to do that,

1. Start Command Prompt.

2. Type “cd /d <path_of_virtualbox_installation>”.

3. Now, remember the path of your VDI. Type and run the following command:
VBoxManage.exe internalcommands sethduuid "C:pathtonewvdi"

Now, your VDI’s UUID will be changed and assigned to a new one and won’t give you such error anymore while working with it.

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• Posted on - 08/27/2014
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