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Mitchell Skurnik

I just physically moved my home lab from one house to another and my storage space for my primary array will not re-attach. The message I get is "Error attaching or detaching virtual disk: Failed to attach virtual disk to MyServer."

I tried a few things including Get-VirtualDisk | Where-Object IsManualAttach -eq $true | Set-VirtualDisk -IsManualAttach $false and after multiple attempts I was able to set the value to $false.

I was able to pull these error messages from Event Viewer:

An error occurred during method execution.

Class:      SPACES_VirtualDisk
Method:     Attach
ObjectId:   [REDACTED]
Error Code: 4

And

An error has occurred during method execution.

Class:      MSFT_VirtualDisk
Method:     Attach
Error Code: 4
Error Message:

Failed
Activity ID: {68137d67-7406-4e9b-b566-050f30b9ea14}

Running Get-VirtualDisk | Connect-VirtualDisk in PowerShell returns:

Connect-VirtualDisk : Failed
Activity ID: {90b49a62-37c6-4dc1-aabc-1489763f0696}
At line:1 char:19
+ Get-VirtualDisk | Connect-VirtualDisk
+                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...SFT_VirtualDisk) [Connect-VirtualDisk], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 4,Connect-VirtualDisk

At this point I am not sure what to do. I do have some commercial recovery software from RunTime Software but I would rather avoid doing that as that would require my to buy additional drives to offload all my data onto it. I do have a backup of 85% of it online but I would rather not go that route if possible.

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Mitchell Skurnik
I ended up spending a few days restoring the data and about 20 TB of bandwidth later, I restored everything. I think what happened is a windows update nuked something permissions wise. A few updates installed before I powered down the machine before the move and I also had issues powering up my Hyper-V VM that uses a physical disk. It had a permissions error with accessing it. I had to remove the drive from the VM settings and then add it back.
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