I was facing the below error on trying to start a Hyper-V VM An attempt to initialize VM saved state failed. I got my solution from the following link 2249906 I executed below command in command prompt icacls "D:\AX VM\AX 2012 R2 VM Release 3\AX2012R2A-v3\Virtual Mac hines\CBC38DA6-6367-45FD-8838-3192C3481D0E\*.*" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\CBC38 DA6-6367-45FD-8838-3192C3481D0E":(F) Output : processed file: D:\AX VM\AX 2012 R2 VM Release 3\AX2012R2A-v3\Virtual Machines\C BC38DA6-6367-45FD-8838-3192C3481D0E\CBC38DA6-6367-45FD-8838-3192C3481D0E.bin processed file: D:\AX VM\AX 2012 R2 VM Release 3\AX2012R2A-v3\Virtual Machines\C BC38DA6-6367-45FD-8838-3192C3481D0E\CBC38DA6-6367-45FD-8838-3192C3481D0E.vsv Successfully processed 2 files; Failed processing 0 files I was able to successfully start the VM after this.
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