ERROR_VHD_PARENT_VHD_ACCESS_DENIED

The chain of virtual hard disks is inaccessible. The process has not been granted access rights to the parent virtual hard disk for the differencing disk.

Matched as: the code as given (hex)

HRESULT breakdown: code: 22, customer: False, facility: 58, severity: failure (bit 31 set), ntstatus_wrapped: False

Source: COM Error Codes (VOLMGR, BCD, VHD, SDIAG) (Winerror.h) · CC BY 4.0 · wording unchanged, formatting adapted for this site · retrieved 2026-10-24