A perennial problem with a Hyper-V VM failing to start

[andy9999]

I keep getting an error when starting a particular virtual machine on Hyper-V. The error: 'VSERVER' failed to start. Synthetic SCSI controller (Instance ID XXXXX): Failed to Power on with Error 'The chain of virtual hard disks is corrupted. There is a mismatch in the identifiers of the parent virtual hard disk and differencing disk'. The problem is fixed via this command: Set-VHD "C:\Path\to\Hyper-V\VSERVER.avhdx" -ParentPath "C:\Path\to\Hyper-V\VSERVER.vhdx" -ignoreidmismatch ...and the VM will start right up again. But after a random #s of shutdowns, the "VSERVER failed to start" err

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