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Operating System Not Found Errors Occur

Valid on Windows platforms.

Symptom 1

The following message appears when you try to start the guest operating system on a virtual machine after you recovered the virtual machine using the Restore to Alternate Location option:

Operating System Not Found.

Solution 1

The above behavior can occur on virtual machines that contain SCSI and IDE devices. If this problem occurs, examine how disks are configured on your virtual machine and verify that the boot sequence of the recovered virtual machine is the same as the source virtual machine. If the boot sequence is different, you must update the BIOS on the recovered virtual machine to match that of the source.

Note: The first IDE disk should use (0:1).

Symptom 2

The following message appears when you try to start the guest operating system on a virtual machine after you recovered virtual machine:

Operating System Not Found.

Solution 2

If the above problem occurs, examine how disks are configured on the virtual machine and verify that the boot sequence on the Replica virtual machine is the same as the source virtual machine.