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While working on a Sitecore XM Cloud container setup locally on Windows, I encountered a baffling error: docker: Error response from daemon: FSCTL_EXTEND_VOLUME \\?\Volume{2072a458-5396-496e-9e16-805157429bf3}: The media is write protected. The error occurred during container start-up and prevented Sitecore instances from launching correctly. It halted all local development — Docker containers wouldn't mount correctly, and no configuration changes helped. ❌ What Didn’t Work I tried multiple things, but none resolved the issue: Restarting Docker Desktop Resetting Docker volumes Rebuilding containers Removing Docker data folder Reinstalling Docker (latest version) Changing permissions on mounted volumes Nothing worked. 🔍 Root Cause After researching, I discovered the issue was introduced in recent versions of Docker Desktop (v4.38+) on Windows. These versions had changes that caused volume mounting issues, especially on Windows filesystem-backed containers . ...

Recently, I encountered an issue where Docker Desktop wasn’t starting properly on my Windows machine despite WSL2 being installed. After spending a good amount of time debugging and researching, I found the root cause and resolved it. I'm sharing this here in hopes that it might help someone else facing the same issue. Problem: Docker Desktop was failing to start and showed errors related to WSL2 or Hyper-V, such as: checking if isocache exists: CreateFile \\wsl$\docker-desktop-data\isocache\: The network name cannot be found. OR running WSL command wsl.exe --mount --bare --vhd <path-to-vhdx>: ... The usage help output is shown instead of execution.   Despite having WSL2 installed, Docker remained stuck or threw exceptions. Root Cause: WSL2 was installed on the machine, but its required Windows features were not enabled . Resolution Steps: Here is the step-by-step guide to fix this: ✅ 1. Check if Virtualization is Enabled Open Task Manager > Performance Tab > CPU Ensu...