{"id":1259,"date":"2014-01-20T06:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T23:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itersdesktop.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2014-01-20T06:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T23:39:18","slug":"virtualbox-cannot-register-the-hard-drive-because-a-hard-drive-with-uuid-already-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itersdesktop.com\/vi\/2014\/01\/20\/virtualbox-cannot-register-the-hard-drive-because-a-hard-drive-with-uuid-already-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox \u2013 Cannot Register the Hard Drive Because a Hard Drive with UUID Already Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtualization is awesome! It really helps when you are a developer. \u00a0On my laptop I don\u2019t even have SQL Server installed on the OS directly. \u00a0In fact the only thing I have installed on my host is Office, Skype and Chrome. \u00a0Everything else gets run on a VM. SSIS package creation using BIDS: VM. SQL Server Management Studio: VM. SharePoint sandbox: VM VPN: VM. One of the advantages of doing this is you don\u2019t have to worry about screwing something up. \u00a0I have a snapshot on the VM just before I installed SQL Server. \u00a0So if something happens and my install gets corrupted I will just roll it back and reinstall SQL Server rather than the entire OS plus SQL Server. Currently to do all this I am using Oracle\u2019s VirtualBox software. \u00a0It works great for those of us who have Windows 7 and allows you to run both x86 and x64 virtual machines. \u00a0I recently tried to make a copy of one of my VHDs (Virtual Hard Drive) and create a new VM. \u00a0Everything was wonderful until I got this error:<\/p>\n

\"VirtualBox<\/a>
VirtualBox Duplicate UUID<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Failed to open the hard disk .<\/strong> Cannot register the hard disk becuase a hard disk with UUID already exists.<\/strong> I looked all over the place to find what was causing it and finally found a fix. Of course it requires the command prompt, so open that junk up and let\u2019s get started! **Note that I am on VirtualBox version 4.1.6 and from what I\u2019ve read this command used to be something different a few versions ago. I think instead of setdhuuid it was setvdiuuid, but don\u2019t hold me to that.**<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Command Prompt<\/li>\n
  2. Change the directory to where VirtualBox is installed (Default: C:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox)<\/li>\n
  3. Type the following\u00a0VBOXMANAGE.EXE internalcommands sethduuid <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note that\u00a0internalcommands<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0sethduuid<\/strong>\u00a0need to be lowercase. \u00a0I spent more than a couple minutes trying to figure out why things weren\u2019t working. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 Below is the output of me changing the ID of the VHD located at C:\\Users\\bschacht\\VirtualBox VMs\\Windows XP (VPN) Copy.vhd<\/p>\n

    \"VirtualBoxCMDOutput\"<\/a>
    VirtualBoxCMDOutput<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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