Hyper-V VHD file permissions lost when moving folders
I recently found that I broke my home lab environment when I needed to free up/juggle some disk space on one of my SSDs. I carefully used robocopy to preserve the permissions on the backups of the VHDs, but on restoring them, I forgot, and used the GUI to copy and paste them back to their restored location. When I tried to start the VM up, the Hyper-V manager greeted me with the following error 'YourVirtualMachine' failed to start. Synthetic SCSI Controller (Instance ID XXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX): Failed to Power on with Error 'General access denied error'. Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service Account does not have permission to open attachment 'C:\HYPER-V\VHD\YourVirtualMachine.vhdx'. Error: 'General access denied error' So the error is fairly self explanatory, I broke the permissions. Each VM on the Hyper-V host, will have a group named after the VMs own unique ID. This group needs NTFS read and write permissions on the VHD or VHDx (n...