Hello everyone!
I need your help.
While I was working on a virtual machine, the power suddenly went out. After my computer unexpectedly shut down (it’s running Linux Fedora), I can no longer start my Windows 10 virtual machine in VirtualBox 7.0. It contains very important files.
From the screenshot, it looks like the file Windows10.vdi is missing or corrupted.
Has anyone encountered a similar issue and knows how to restore the virtual machine or at least recover the data from it?
Unfortunately, I didn’t make any backups and never thought something like this could happen…
I would be extremely grateful for any advice or assistance!
I see file-not-found errors for a .VDI file.
It seems that is the virtual-disk-image file.
Can you restore your last backup?
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Assuming the .vdi image is corrupted (happened to me a few times before) I would just attempt a data recovery from it as it were an external drive. Backup the original seemingly corrupted image, make a new virtual machine, boot form it and then mount the old image to try and recover data from it. And yes, making regular backups of your VM images is a good practice.
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Unfortunately, there is no backup copy(
Okay, I will try it.
Thanks for the advice)
I tried countless solutions, including rebuilding the virtual machine with the same configurations. The error disappeared, but the VM still wouldn’t start. A window would briefly open and then immediately close.
However, I finally found a way to recover my files using Hetman Partition Recovery. I mounted the virtual disk “windows10.vbox” in the software, scanned it for existing files, and successfully saved them to a USB flash drive. I then immediately made multiple backup copies and uploaded them to cloud storage.
P.S. Always make backups—anyone can end up in a similar situation. Thanks to everyone who responded and tried to help!
For those interested, here’s the article that helped me:
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