(SOLVED) Windows10 VM stuck on boot screen

thisiserm

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EDIT: I booted the vm from a Windows install media and used the command prompt option to check and repair the disk. The file system was corrupted within the VM and does not appear to be a Proxmox issue.

Since yesterday, my W10 vm running on Proxmox has been stuck on the "SeaBIOS... Booting from Hard dirk..." screen.

Hours go by and it never moves past that.

I have reset the vm multiple times, and reset the Proxmox machine with no results.

I have found nothing in the syslog indicating there is anything wrong with the VM and at this point I don't know what to do.

I've checked the disk and filesystem for errors and everything comes up clean but no matter how much I try, the VM won't boot.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
 

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Please share the VM configuration file qm config YOUR_VM_NUMBER. Did you disable hardware virtualization support that makes VMs very slow? Have you tried booting with VM from a Ubuntu Live installer ISO (temporarily without installing it) to see if that starts normally?
 
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This is the config:

Code:
boot: order=ide0;ide2;net0
cores: 4
ide0: local:100/vm-100-disk-0.qcow2,size=102G
ide1: DISK3-6TB:vm-100-disk-0,size=5723076M
ide2: local:iso/Win10_1809Oct_v2_EnglishInternational_x64.iso,media=cdrom
ide3: Disk2-4TB:vm-100-disk-0,size=3815212M
machine: pc-i440fx-6.0
memory: 30517
name: W10
net0: e1000=D6:E3:2E:7A:EA:A5,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win10
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=21e94f17-ca6e-4a35-81fd-0eedd5f64577
sockets: 1
vga: memory=16
vmgenid: d1baf204-6886-4caf-a1cf-2460ec06bc1b

I believe the problem is with the boot drive (ide0) I am able to boot with both the Ubuntu live ISO and the Windows installation media with no issue.

I plan to attempt a system repair with the Windows install media. Just want to explore all my options before.
 
What did you end up doing? I tried to boot with the windows install media, "repair my pc", but I couldn't fix anything.
edit: Changed from scsi boot to sata boot. now it boots :)
 
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