If you are getting the “Virtual Disk Service error: The service failed to initialize” error, it might be because the Virtual Disk Service is not running. To fix this, you need to start the VDS ...

If you see Disk Management could not start Virtual Disk Service & Disk Management is stuck at or not connecting to VDS, see this post.

You may come across an error displaying the following message: Couldn’t Mount File, The disk image isn’t initialized, contains partitions that aren’t recognizable.