Vhdx cannot be accessed because it is in use

I'm working with a 2012 R2 hyper-v clustered environment with virtual machine manager from system center. I recently tried to rename a VM, by renaming it in the OS and having its folder name reflect its name in the OS.What I try to do is make a new VM, name it the name I want it to be so that the folder is created correctly on the CSV we use for shared storage. Then I copy over the original VHDX files to the new VM folder and attach them. Had some trouble with this today. The file was locked somewhere, and it would not allow me to attach or add the VHDX file that was for my C operating system drive.
I'm having trouble figuring out what needs to be done to be able to free this file up. I get the error: "The vhdx cannot be accessed because it is in use by another process on the server.The process cannot access the file because it is being...
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I'm working with a 2012 R2 hyper-v clustered environment with virtual machine manager from system center. I recently tried to rename a VM, by renaming it in the OS and having its folder name reflect its name in the OS.What I try to do is make a new VM, name it the name I want it to be so that the folder is created correctly on the CSV we use for shared storage. Then I copy over the original VHDX files to the new VM folder and attach them. Had some trouble with this today. The file was locked somewhere, and it would not allow me to attach or add the VHDX file that was for my C operating system drive.
I'm having trouble figuring out what needs to be done to be able to free this file up. I get the error: "The vhdx cannot be accessed because it is in use by another process on the server.The process cannot access the file because it is being...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

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