i expanded my windows 10 vm a month ago and it was working perfectly fine. today i installed docker on the vm, restarted it and it stopped working 

now i'm stuck at a loop of startup repair

i've entered the cmd in the advanced settings and tried to check DISKPART but when i try list disk, i get "There Are No Fixed Disks to Show"

 

is there any way to repair the img or at least recover some stuff that wasn't saved to the array?

Edited June 13, 20232 yr by sohailoo

In startup repair choose safe mode, it'll fix itself, then reboot. 

The VM platform you had to enable for Docker doesn't work on qemu. 

i don't have an option for safe mode

15 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

In startup repair choose safe mode, it'll fix itself, then reboot. 

The VM platform you had to enable for Docker doesn't work on qemu. 

 

Edited June 13, 20232 yr by sohailoo

You should have "Startup Settings" somewhere. If not maybe try assigning the iso again and booting from that / going into the repair menu.

16 hours ago, Kilrah said:

You should have "Startup Settings" somewhere. If not maybe try assigning the iso again and booting from that / going into the repair menu.

 

tried that and still no startup settings 

anyone have any clue about how i can fix this or at least extract the data from the .img?

9 hours ago, sohailoo said:

 

tried that and still no startup settings 

Until then you're sure you were booting from the img and not the iso? i.e. remove the ISO from the template to be sure it's not there?

17 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Until then you're sure you were booting from the img and not the iso? i.e. remove the ISO from the template to be sure it's not there?

yup i'm sure since if i was booting from the iso i would get the install windows window not startup repair nonetheless i removed the iso and tried again and i'm still not getting the startup settings option

 

when i try looking for the disks using diskpart i get there are no fixed disks to show. 

6 hours ago, sohailoo said:

when i try looking for the disks using diskpart i get there are no fixed disks to show. 

Are you installing the virtio driver? Or set thedisk controller to SATA.

10 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Are you installing the virtio driver? Or set thedisk controller to SATA.

Thanks i just changed the primary vdisk bus from virtio to sata and it booted up successfully. 

was i supposed to have my vms on sata? 

Virtio works, and is usually faster, but requires the driver to be installed.