Then: “Driver installed successfully.”
She exited the command prompt and clicked “Continue to Windows 10.” vmware windows 10 inaccessible boot device
Then—the login screen. Glorious, blue, unbroken. Then: “Driver installed successfully
She navigated to a USB drive she had pre-loaded (she wasn’t a rookie) with the VMware Tools floppy image—specifically the vmwscsi.inf driver for the LSI Logic SAS controller. Then, the magic incantation: Then, the magic incantation: She exhaled, leaned back,
She exhaled, leaned back, and typed a single entry into the change log: “VM restored. Root cause: Windows Update nuked storage driver. Note to self: convert VM to PVSCSI and inject drivers before next Patch Tuesday.”
That was the key. Windows 10 had loaded its update, rebooted, and lost its mind—or more precisely, lost its storage driver. A classic race condition: Windows tried to load the disk driver milliseconds after it had already given up on the boot volume.