VBoxManage modifyhd compact fails -- VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleModifyHardDisk(HandlerArg*)" at line 582 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

[Quickbooks Office]

[user@localhost ~]$ VBoxManage modifyhd '/run/media/user/HardDrive/vbx/latestwin7.vdi' --compact

0%... Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR VBoxManage: error: Failed to compact hard disk VBoxManage: error: Could not compact medium '/run/media/user/newBegining/vbx/latestwin7.vdi' (VERR_DEV_IO_ERROR) VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Medium, interface IMedium VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleModifyHardDisk(HandlerArg*)" at line 582 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp [user@localhost ~]$

[Quickbooks Office]

formmatting is broken above:

[user@localhost ~]$ VBoxManage modifyhd '/run/media/user/HardDrive/vbx/latestwin7.vdi' --compact
0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR
VBoxManage: error: Failed to compact hard disk
VBoxManage: error: Could not compact medium '/run/media/user/HardDrive/vbx/latestwin7.vdi' (VERR_DEV_IO_ERROR)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Medium, interface IMedium
VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleModifyHardDisk(HandlerArg*)" at line 582 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

[Frank Mehnert]

Looks to me really like VirtualBox was not able to read the medium, for instance due to a physical medium error.

[Quickbooks Office]

Replying to frank:

Looks to me really like VirtualBox was not able to read the medium, for instance due to a physical medium error.

yes I found out later my hard disk had bad sectors. please close this ticket.