You receive a "One of the virtual hard disks could not be located" error message when you start a virtual machine in Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 (889515)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1

SYMPTOMS

After you merge a differencing virtual hard disk into the parent virtual hard disk, the virtual machine may try to access the former differencing virtual hard disk.

You use the Virtual Disk Wizard to merge the differencing virtual hard disk into the parent virtual hard disk by clicking The file of the parent virtual hard disk, clicking Next, and then clicking Finish. When you do this, and then start the virtual machine that used the parent virtual hard disk, you may receive the following error message:

One of the virtual hard disks could not be located.

Please specify a new virtual hard disk.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, you must reconnect to the parent virtual hard disk. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Click the affected virtual machine in the Virtual PC Console, and then click Settings.
  2. Click the hard disk that was merged. For example, click Hard disk 1.
  3. Click Virtual hard disk file, and then click Browse.
  4. Locate the parent virtual hard disk. Typically this is located in your My Virtual Machines folder in your My Documents folder.
  5. Click Open and then click OK.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/30/2004
Keywords:kbtshoot kbprb KB889515 kbAudEndUser
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