Windows Sandbox: The system cannot find the specified path. (0x80070003)

[joaowars776]

I did two clean installations of Windows 11 24H2 a while ago and all of them Windows Sandbox worked perfectly

however, this time, I put the Windows 11 24H2 (Pro) ISO in MicroWin, with the option to add all drivers

I did a clean install of Windows with this new ISO created, everything is 100% perfect including VMware, I just noticed this error in Windows Sandbox, I'm not sure if it's related to MicroWin which removes that junk from OneDrive before your desktop is inside it, I remember that at one time this caused a lot of bugs, but nothing related to winutil, just a quote

I tried reinstalling Sandbox in every way and it didn't help. chkdsk, sfc /scannow and dism were all used. Hyper-V turned off didn't solve the problem either

I mentioned OneDrive because the problem of not being able to find the specific directory is something similar to what I experienced 2 or 3 years ago in Windows 10

[joaowars776]

This doesn't seem to be a rare problem, I found a recent comment on YouTube that had a similar problem and his response was:

"i found out the problem in the end. Somehow the Christitus tool had my iGPU driver reset. I had to update the driver. And the VMs started working again."

for people who come here in the future, maybe this is the solution

In my case it wouldn't work, Ryzen 7 5700x doesn't have an iGPU

[floh96]

I encountered the same bug the problem is the edge removal, if you remove edge the windows sandbox fails to start and displays this error. To fix the issue reinstall edge. fyi @ChrisTitusTech

[Mobasheera]

I encountered the same bug the problem is the edge removal, if you remove edge the windows sandbox fails to start and displays this error. To fix the issue reinstall edge. fyi @ChrisTitusTech

This is so true. I had the same exact problem and I did so much of trouble shooting. Thank you so much for leaving this comment. You saved me another day of headache. @ChrisTitusTech should really look into this and change his script. As soon as I installed edge from the official website and launched the Windows Sandbox, it worked perfectly!

This was the error I was getting before:

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