Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
Azure Virtual Machine OS Disk deletes all the data
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Luis Manuel Rivas Noriega
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When I rebooted my virtual machine, I noticed that it takes a long time to redeploy, but wait a minute. After I logged in, it asked me to set up Cortana as a fresh install, and it also removed all the software and files on the operating system disk. It seems that it was formatted or that I was assigned a completely new disk but it did not ask me for any authorization, error or notification, I just delete everything, I need to recover the files that I had on the disk. They weren't on the Temporary Drive, they were directly on C.
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Alan Kinane 17,356 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2021-09-26T14:56:27.343+00:00 Did you create your VM with an ephemeral OS disk? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/ephemeral-os-disks
IIf yes, then this behaviour is by design and unfortunately any data stored on the OS disk is lost.
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Sumarigo-MSFT 47,506 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator2021-09-27T14:17:22.263+00:00 @Luis Manuel Rivas Noriega As I understand you need to recover the data deleted from the OS disk am I correct?
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Sumarigo-MSFT 47,506 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
2021-10-05T13:12:06.007+00:00 @Luis Manuel Rivas Noriega Just checking in to see if you have had a chance to see the previous response. Could you share the above required information to understand/investigate this issue further?
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