One of the virtual hard disks could not be located

Asked By William J Leibowitz 0 points N/A Posted on - 03/09/2013

On my virtual PC I am getting an error message which you can see in the below attached image. Why is this happening? Need suggestions to resolve this problem. Thanks

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One of the virtual hard disks could not be located

Please specify a new virtual hard disk

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Answered By Ford Smithkings 0 points N/A #175443

One of the virtual hard disks could not be located

Hi William
This error occurs when merging a differencing virtual hard disk into the parent virtual hard disk, the virtual machine
In order to fix the problem you need to do the following
1. Go to the virtual PC console of the affected virtual machine and click on settings
2. Select the hard disk that was merged and click Hard disk 1
3. Click on virtual disk file and then click browse
4. Got to the parent virtual hard disk which is located in the My Virtual Machine folder in the My Documents folder
5. Click open and click ok

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Answered By Fraserr Dawn 0 points N/A #175444

One of the virtual hard disks could not be located

Hello William,

You are getting this error message because you do not have the parent virtual hard drive which makes the child hard drive useless. To get rid of the message go to the settings of your console locate the parent virtual hard drive open it and add it. This  will fix the problem and you will no longer see the error again.

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