NTSTATUS 0xC03A0003 (STATUS_VHD_DRIVE_FOOTER

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Description: a legacy VHD footer is present but contains invalid layout information.

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Constant	Type	OS
ERROR_VHD_DRIVE_FOOTER_CORRUPT	HRESULT	Windows

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STATUS_VHD_DRIVE_FOOTER_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH	STATUS_VHD_FORMAT_UNKNOWN

STATUS_VHD_DRIVE_FOOTER_CORRUPT

STATUS_VHD_DRIVE_FOOTER_CORRUPT reports a footer-level validity problem in a legacy VHD. The footer contains information such as disk type, virtual size and a unique identifier, so a provider cannot safely interpret the rest of the image when those fields are inconsistent with the format rules.

The important distinction from STATUS_VHD_DRIVE_FOOTER_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH is that this is not limited to the checksum check. It also differs from STATUS_VHD_INVALID_FILE_SIZE, which concerns the container length rather than the footer record itself.

Diagnose at the container layer

Capture the footer bytes, image size, and reported disk type before invoking a conversion or attach operation.
Verify that the selected recovery tool understands legacy VHD rather than treating the file as an unstructured raw disk image.
Do not repair guest partitions first: the virtual-disk provider must be able to establish a trustworthy container mapping before guest-level tools are meaningful.

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