Removing a Hyper-V VM with Saved-Critical status.

If a VM has had its storage removed before the VM was removed from Hyper-V manager you may end up with a status of Saved-Critical. In order to remove the VM, powershell will be required.

  • Open powershell as admin
  • List the VM’s using “Get-VM”
  • Run “Remove-VM -name [VMNAME] -force

The VM should now be removed from Hyper-V manager.