At the next screen, make your choices about the "Disk Image File Type" & "Size" (or leave the default settings) and finally give a name for the new disk image.Ĥ. Select the Virtual Hard disk, that you want to clone and click Copy.ģ. * Note: The proper way to successfully clone an existing virtual hard disk image file (VDI, VHD, VMDK, etc.), is to use the Copy function in VirtualBox Media Manager.ġ. From Virtualbox's File menu select Virtual Media Manager.Ģ. To avoid the "Failed to open the disk Image File, Cannot Register the Hard Disk" error from happening, is to clone Virtual Disk image files (VDI, VHD, etc.), by using the VirtualBox Media Manager,* instead of using the host's OS Copy/Paste functions. Clone Virtual Disk with Virtual Media Manager. Click OK to close Virtual Machine settings. Select the virtual hard disk file that you want to add and click Open.ĩ. Select Storage at the left pane and then click the 'Add hard disk' icon at the right.Ĩ. Highlight the VM where you want to add the Virtual Hard Drive file (.VDI) and click Settings.Ħ. Then, click Remove (and then press the Remove button) to remove the missing virtual hard disk.ĥ. * Note: If you don't see any missed disks here, continue to method-2.ģ. Highlight the missed Virtual Disk (the one with the error sign)* and click Release. (When asked, press the Release button to release the missing hard drive.) From VirtualBox File menu, open the Virtual Media Manager.Ģ. At this case, you have to release the missing virtual disk file using the VirtualBox Media Manager. volume) and then you try to re-add the virtual hard disk (from the new location) to a new or to an existing virtual machine, without having previously removed the missed disk from VirtualBox. The above error can appear if you have moved the virtual hard disk to another location (e.g. Remove Missed Virtual Disks from VirtualBox. Clone Disk Image with Virtual Media Manager. Remove the Missed Virtual Disk file from VirtualBox. VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)" How to resolve VirtualBox error: Failed to open virtual hard disk file (.VDI) because hard disk already exits. " Cannot register the hard disk 'C:\Users\%Username%\VirtualBox VMs\%VirtualDiskName1%.vdi' At that case, Virtualbox cannot register the disk image file (VDI, VHD, VMDK, etc.) and displays the following error: The "Failed to open the disk Image File – Cannot Register Hard Disk" error in VirtualBox appears because the VM Disk Image File that you try to open has the same UUID with another Virtual Disk Image file. This tutorial contains instructions to fix the following error when trying to add an existing virtual hard drive in VirtualBox: "Failed to open the hard disk file, because a hard disk with the same UUID already exists".
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