“Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re Just collecting some error infro, and then you can restart. (100% complete)”

You may got the above error message, when start a Windows 2012 AD guest VM which restored successfully from Windows server backup.

Scene:

restore a windows Hyper-V backup (backup from windows built-on application Windows Server Backup over 3 months for example backup date Jan 1 2016 ) to a new machine.

successfully restore via Windows server backup  (restored date is April 1 2016)

change Hyper-V config. setting in Hyper-V manager

start VM (Windows 2012 AD )

got error.

Solution:

change Windows Hyper-V Host machine date go back to Jan 3, 2016, close backup date as possible.

perform windows server backup again to restore the backup as normal.

change Hyper-V config. setting in Hyper-V manager.

start VM (windows 2012 AD) , you should start without any error

login to VM.

change guest system date to the real time (for example April 1, 2016).

reboot VM.

chnage Hyper-V host machine to the real time (for example April 1, 2016).