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a Veritas Account now! Welcome First Last Your Profile Logout Sign in to Subscribe Please sign in to set up your subscription. Close Sign In Print Article Products Article Languages Subscribe to this Article Manage your Subscriptions Problem A virtual machine fail to start with "Error Loading Operating System" error after restoring the virtual machine via VMware Agent. Error Message Error error loading operating system windows xp Loading Operating System Cause Each virtual machine has VMDK descriptor file(s) in virtual disk(s), and there is a parameter "ddb.geometry.sectors" in a VMDK descriptor file. ESX always sets the parameter as a fixed value when creating the virtual machine. For instance, the parameter is set as 63 when a virtual disk is larger than 2GB. For details, please refer to the VMware KB 1026266 in below Solution section. Similarly, the parameter is set as the fixed value even if restoring a virtual machine where the parameter is set as the customized value (e.g. ddb.geometry.sectors = "53"). In this case, the parameter is different from the original one, and the restored virtual machine fails to be started with an error "Error Loading Operating System". Also the same issue can occur when P2V is performed. Solution Please edit VMDK descriptor file(s) to set a parameter "ddb.geometry.sectors", "ddb.geometry.headers" and "ddb.geometry.clinders" as the original values when this issue occurred. As for editing *.vmdk , please refer to VMware KBs below. Recreating a missing virtual disk (VMDK) descriptor file for disks split into 2GB files (1026266) NSXVirtual SAN vCenterFusionWorkstationvExpertVMware {code} CloudCredSubmit a Link Home > VMTN > VMware vSphere™ > VMware ESXi 4 > Discussions Please enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. 7 Replies Latest reply: May 5, 2011 10:01 AM by a.p. Error Loading Operating System When Importing Into ESXi QantasA380 error loading operating system windows xp virtualbox May 4, 2011 10:29 AM Hi, I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine on error loading operating system xp install ESXi box 1. I am trying to export this and import this into ESXi box 2. ESXi box 1 is in error loading operating system hp a V-Center setup and ESXi box is a standalone server. I exported the virtual machine by selected the powered off virtual machine > File > Export > Export OVF Template. I then imported into box https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000018923 2 by File > Deploy OVF template. When the import has finished i get "Error Loading Operating System" The virtual machine is Windows XP and the ESXi Hosts are running 4.0 ESXi Box 1 is HP ProLiant DL370 G6ESXi Box 2 is Dell Poweredge 2950 Does anyone have any ideas please? Thanks 2302Views Tags: none (add) This content has been marked as final. Show 7 replies 1. Re: Error Loading Operating https://communities.vmware.com/thread/312682?start=0&tstart=0 System When Importing Into ESXi weinstein5 May 4, 2011 10:33 AM (in response to QantasA380) Welcoem to the Communities - I am not sure what is going on because what you describe is correct - an alternative method is download a copy of the stand alone converter and use that to move the VM over - Like Show 0 Likes (0) Actions 2. Re: Error Loading Operating System When Importing Into ESXi QantasA380 May 4, 2011 10:37 AM (in response to weinstein5) I was hoping you was going to say i was doing something wrong and its an easy fix I will try the converter in the morning.Does it matter the host hardware inst the same please?The idea is that i am using the standalone ESXi box to rebuild the domain and i will import this into the main setup when the time comes. I will be importing many servers so i am just testing this out for when the time comes.Thanks Like Show 0 Likes (0) Actions 3. Re: Error Loading Operating System When Importing Into ESXi weinstein5 May 4, 2011 10:41 AM (in response to QantasA380) The only other thing would be to retry exposrting to the OVF maybe the export became corrupt - Like Show 0 Likes (0) 0 How to…, Management, Troubleshooting broken, chkdsk, error loading operating system, mbr, restore, testdisk, vmware After a restore a virtual machine failed to start, the screen remained black and the following error was displayed: "Error loading http://www.running-system.com/error-loading-operating-system/ operating system" All standard solutions like "chkdsk /r", "chkdsk /p", fixmbr, fixboot,… did not http://superuser.com/questions/223872/getting-error-loading-operating-system-when-i-start-a-vm-worked-fine-prior-op work. After some deeper research I noticed that there may be a problem with the disk geometry of the virtual disk. I guess that this occured when we aligned a lot of virtual machines some times ago or something happend during the restore. Fortunately I found a tool that helped to clean up the mess and made error loading the virtual machine bootable. Solution: Attach the broken boot disk (vmdk) to another virtual machine download the tool "Testdisk" unzip the tool and start testdisk_win.exe on the virtual machine you use for repair Select "No Log": Select the disk you want to repair: Select "Intel/PC partition": Now select "MBR Code - Write TestDisk MBR code to first sector": confirm "Write a new copy of MBR code to first sector" with y error loading operating (yes) confirm "Write a new copy of MBR code, confirm" with y (yes) Select OK after the new copy of MBR code has been written successfully. Now select "Advanced - Filesystem Utils": In the next window select "Boot": If there are mismatches or problems you will get a view like this: to solve this, select "Rebuild BS" when the rebuild was successfull, leave the tool using "quit" till all windows are closed unattach the virtual disk from the virtual machine power on your broken Virtual machine - it should now boot without any problems! Tweet ← Previous post Next post → Related Posts Converting a Windows disk from MBR to GPT layout without data loss Improve your documentations with Visio Stencils for VMware, Hyper-V and Veeam Runecast - providing a magic insight into your datacenter Leave a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Currently you have JavaScript disabled. In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. 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Worked fine prior opening with VirtualBox up vote 1 down vote favorite 1 I'm using VMware Workstation 7.x on Windows and I'm getting this error when I start my VM: error loading operating system That started to happen when I tried to load the VMDK file into the program VirtualBox. Prior to this, it ran just fine. Ever since then I have been unable to start it in VMware Workstation 7.x I've already tried to repair the VMDK file but when I do it tells me there are "no errors found". I used vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -R "c:\blah\my vm disk.vmdk" Anyone else have any more suggestions I could try? It's a 300+ GB VM and I don't want to lose it. windows virtualbox vmware-workstation share|improve this question edited Feb 12 at 7:10 Hennes 50.9k776121 asked Dec 19 '10 at 1:07 StealthRT 4083820 migrated from stackoverflow.com Dec 20 '10 at 1:32 This question came from our site for professional and enthusiast programmers. add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote Did you use the VMWare converter? If so it should give you two options: Choose the volume and then create the vmdk Maintain the Disk Size. I believe you want the second options. share|improve this answer answered Dec 19 '10 at 1:39 drpcken 302311 But i already made the VM and just decided to try and see if it would work in VirtualBox. It only messed up because i try to start the VM in VirtualBox and VirtualBox did something to the vmdk file i guess? –StealthRT Dec 19 '10 at 4:58 Where is this WMWare converter?? I downloaded the stand-alone one from the website and it never gave me any of those 2 options you said to look for above? –StealthRT Dec 19 '10 at 23:12 Did you take any snapshots of the guest? –Fergus Dec 20 '10 at 23:42 @fergNab: no i did not. –StealthRT Dec 24