The line changes and shows a checkbox Delete files from datastore.In the Pop-Up window, hover above line Hard disk 3, and a gray icon with a white X is shown.Since only the first two disks are showed, to remove the third Hard Disk first we need to click on Manage other disks. In my example the Virtual Machine started with 2 original Hard Disks before the third one was added.While the Virtual Machine is shut down, using the vSphere Client, select the Virtual Machine and open Edit Settings….We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you.” “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.
Important: If you should skip the reboot step and just shut down the Virtual Machine and start modifying the Virtual Hard Disk Configuration, you’ll be presented with a BSoD boot loop. Select-Object TimeCreated,Message | Out-GridView Get-WinEvent -LogName Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP/Configuration | GridView showing Kernel Plug & Play events created by the following PowerShell command: This is done on Windows Server 2012R2, the process should be much the same on other versions. You then shutdown Windows, remove any temporary hard disk, remove the extra PVSCSI controller and change the type of the original controller to PVSCSI.
Actually if you ever changed a VM to use the ParaVirtual SCSI Controller, you boot the VM using it’s ‘normal’ SCSI controller, you add the PVSCSI and a (temporary) hard disk to it, wait for Windows to install all drivers and ‘see’ the hard disk connected to the PVSCSI.
So I created this how to for the customer, and thought it might be useful for others. VMware Tools includes the device driver for the PVSCSI Controller, without VMware Tools, Windows lost its driver for the PVSCSI controller and can’t boot from it. The issue is quite simple, it’s a chicken-egg kind of thing. They needed to reinstall the VMware Tools because of the issue encountered described in VMware KB2063887
At a customer location I was asked to reinstall VMware Tools on machines, normally the customer would do this their selves, but after uninstall of the VMware Tools, the VM wouldn’t boot.