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My Ubuntu workstation froze completely, so I had to reset it.

Afterwards, when I launch VirtualBox (v 4.1.4) and try to power on a Windows 7 image, I just get "FATAL: No bootable medium found!".

Note: I did have a working Windows 7 installation in this image that I've been using for the last 10 months. So this is not the same situation as when creating a new virtual machine.

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I've tried resetting and powering off the virtual machine a couple of times, but no luck.

Is there any way to rescue / continue using this Windows image? Or is the only option starting over with a new Windows 7 installation? I hadn't saved any snapshots.

In my VirtualBox VMs/Windows7 directory, I still have the 28 gig .vdi file:

$ ll  -h
total 28G
drwxr-xr-x 4 jonik jonik 4.0K 2012-02-08 14:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 jonik jonik 4.0K 2011-05-18 19:02 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 jonik jonik 4.0K 2012-02-08 14:25 Logs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 jonik jonik 4.0K 2012-02-08 14:25 Snapshots/
-rw------- 1 jonik jonik  13K 2012-02-08 14:27 Windows7.vbox
-rw------- 1 jonik jonik  13K 2012-02-08 14:25 Windows7.vbox-prev
-rw------- 1 jonik jonik  28G 2012-02-08 14:27 Windows7.vdi
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I found no way, and ended up creating a new virtual machine and installing Windows 7 anew. In the future, I'll try to remember to save snapshots for backup purposes... – Jonik May 24 at 8:38
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