Then—the login screen. Glorious, blue, unbroken.
She exited the command prompt and clicked “Continue to Windows 10.”
She pulled the VM’s logs from /var/log/vmkernel.log on the ESXi host. Buried in the red text: “Device ‘scsi0:0’ is not ready. Access to device failed.” vmware windows 10 inaccessible boot device
Sarah leaned forward, her coffee forgotten. “Come on, come on…” she whispered, tapping the spacebar. Nothing.
Sarah held her breath.
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.
diskpart list volume exit dism /image:D:\ /get-drivers /format:table No VMware storage driver listed. Of course. Then—the login screen
Then, like a bad dream wrapped in a QR code, the screen flipped to blue: Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’ll restart for you. The VM restarted. Same blue screen. Loop. Loop. Loop.