Unable to Boot Win 2012 VM after Disk Failure

[Mats_Hardy]

I have a vSphere host with 4 harddisks and several VMs on the host. The VMs work fine many years.

But last week, one disk was failed and I rebooted vSphere. When I tried to boot the Win 2012 VM, the VM just stays at the recovery window. Are there any ways to recover the Win 2012?

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

Go to troubleshoot option, then to Command Prompt and run the following:

• Type BOOTREC /FIXMBR, and then press ENTER.
• Type BOOTREC /FIXBOOT, and then press ENTER.
• Type Drive:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60 All, and then press ENTER.

Reboot machine.

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[Mats_Hardy]

Thanks for your help but the problem persists even I have followed the above steps on the VM.

[HassanAlKak88]

Try to benefit from a Snapshot if exist, or from a valid backup of this VM (or replication).

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[Mats_Hardy]

Thanks for your reply. I don't have any snapshots or backup of the VM. Are there any ways to copy the files insides the VM without booting up the VM?

[HassanAlKak88]

Try to assign the vmdk disks to other normal VM, then Explore the disk and try to copy your files and data.

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[diegodco31]

Try restore OS with image ISO windows 2012.