VM with Windows 2016 always starts in repair mode

z3networks

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Hi there,
I've been reading here for a while, but now I need some help.

I have a VM with Windows 2016 Standard on Proxmox 8.2.2. The VM always starts in repair mode where I only have the following options:
1. automatic repair is prepared
2. troubleshooting
3 - Restore system
- Restore system images
- Start help
- Command prompt
- Revert to previous build

None of the options help me to get the system up and running again. After a restart, I end up in repair mode again.

No hard disks are displayed in the ctnotwin tool, two hard disks are mounted. One with operating system 100GB (LW c:\) and the 2nd for data 500GB (LW E:\)

With Knoppix I cannot mount the hard disks because there is a Hibermate file, so I have no access to the data on the hard disks for the time being.

Backups are available from the last 3 days but strangely show the same behavior. I therefore assume that there is probably a problem with proxmox.

Yesterday and the day before yesterday I was still working with the Win 2016 server, yesterday morning I got the message that the workstations could not access the shares. Then I realized that the VM or Win 2016 Server had crashed. A restart was not possible, it always went into repair mode.

The data is also backed up in a cloud, so I'm less worried about that at the moment.

Restarting the server will only take a long time. I would like to avoid that.
Below is a screenshot of the proxmos configuration.

Do any of you have an idea what has broken here and possibly how to fix it?
 

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Sounds like another faulty update. Please change the boot disk to SATA and try booting with it.
 
@fireon
That's right, it was an update for Windows 2016 that corrupted the Windows directory, according to a colleague this has happened more often in the last few days. Thank goodness we only had 1 customer who still had a Windows 2016 server running.
We were able to save the data so that we could restore it on a new Windows 2022 server.
 
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