Stuck with the error “Hyper-v no UEFI-compatible file system was found”? We can help you.

A few days ago we came across this error due to which our customer was not able to create a VM.

At Bobcares, we often receive requests to fix errors in Hyper-V errors as part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s analyze the cause for this error and see how our Support Engineers fix it for our customers.

Cause for Hyper-v no UEFI-compatible error

We’ve seen many of our customers experiencing this error. And normally, this error occurs when the configuration for the VM in Hyper-V is incorrect.

Microsoft introduced two Hyper-V Boot Architectures. One or BIOS and another for UEFI. Generation 1 supports BIOS whereas Generation 2 supports UEFI.

Selecting a Boot Architecture can be confusing for customers using Hyper-V. However, we need to select the generation correctly to load Non-UEFI OS.

Let’s discuss how our Support Engineers resolve the error.

How we fix the Hyper-V no UEFI-compatible error?

To resolve the error we need to select Generation 1. Let us discuss how our Support Engineers select Generation 1 during VM creation.

Creating a new VM without a NON-UEFI

To create a VM that supports only BIOS we use Generation 1. Only Generation 2 supports UEFI. Let’s discuss how our Support Engineers create a VM using Generation 1.

1. Open Hyper-V Manager. Click on Hyper-V host and click on Virtual Machine.

2. Now a new window appears and then click Next.

3. Select a location to store the Virtual Machine data. If left empty, it automatically selects the default location. Then, click Next.

4. In the Specify Generation, our Engineers select Generation 1 and click Next.

5. In Assign Memory we specify the memory. Now, in Configure Networking we select the Virtual Switch.

6. Then in Connect Virtual Hard disk, we select the required option and click next.

7. Now the summary displays, We verify the details and finally, we click Finish.

Finally, we created the VM and customer was able to login.

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Conclusion

In short, we discussed the cause for the error “Hyper-v no UEFI-compatible file system was found”. Today, we discussed how our Support Engineers use the generation option to resolve the error.