How To: Repair Vhdx File Better

She’d been backing up a client’s legacy SQL server to a 1.8 TB VHDX file for the past six hours. Now, the backup job had crashed. The error code——pointed to one thing: the VHDX file was corrupt. No backup. No replica. Just one giant, broken virtual disk.

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Repair-VHD -Path "E:\Backups\SQLServer01.vhdx" -Repair -Force This time, the command hung for ten seconds, then: “Repair completed. Some data loss may have occurred in unreadable sectors.” She’d been backing up a client’s legacy SQL