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.”
Maya exhaled. Data loss was expected. But was the file mountable? how to repair vhdx file
By 2:18 AM, she had copied the recovered data to a brand new VHDX, reattached it to the VM, and booted the SQL server. The logs showed a clean shutdown recovery. Repair-VHD -Path "E:\Backups\SQLServer01