She exited the command prompt and clicked “Continue to Windows 10.”
She opened the VM settings. SCSI Controller 0: LSI Logic SAS. That was normal. But then she remembered: the latest Windows 10 cumulative update sometimes overwrites the VMware Tools driver for the Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) controller. Her VM wasn’t even on PVSCSI—it was on LSI Logic SAS. So why the crash?
Then—the login screen. Glorious, blue, unbroken. vmware windows 10 inaccessible boot device
She had two choices. Rebuild from backup (three hours of restore time, plus a crying VP of Finance on Monday morning) or fix the driver offline.
“Oh no,” she muttered. “Not the payroll box.” She exited the command prompt and clicked “Continue
Sarah leaned forward, her coffee forgotten. “Come on, come on…” she whispered, tapping the spacebar. Nothing.
The VMware splash screen appeared. The swirling dots. Five seconds. Ten seconds. But then she remembered: the latest Windows 10
“The virtual disk is fine,” she said, checking the datastore. “So the guest can’t see the boot disk.”