By 2:18 AM, she had copied the recovered data to a brand new VHDX, reattached it to the VM, and booted the SQL server. The logs showed a clean shutdown recovery.
Her heart sank. This wasn’t a simple fix.
She then ran the next-level command:
She detached the VHDX, then re-attached it normally. This time, the drive letter appeared with a file system: NTFS.