I have a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 DataCenter with Drives C,D,E running Sql Server 2012 developer edition. All databases reside on drive E. I was having trouble creating a mirror with a 19GB database that existed on on drive E. We decided to isolate that database from the others by
Creating a Drive F
Detaching the database
Copying the 19GB MDF from drive E to Drive F.
2 minutes into the copy the Virtual Machine crashed with a status of Stopped unable to restart.
I was able to manually restart the machine manually but wondered if anyone else had observed this behavior.
bmukes