title: Restoring Laravel's Homestead after critical error
body: <p>I'm using Homestead via Vagrant for my Laravel environment. When I ran <code>vagrant up</code> today, there was a critical error saying that the box is inaccessible.</p>
  
  <p>One of the instructions that I found on the web suggested unregistering the VM by using its machine uuid, which I did:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; VBoxManage.exe unregistervm [uuid]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After unregistering the status of Homestead box changed from <strong>inaccessible</strong> to <strong>not created</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>Next step was to register the box, which I do like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; VBoxManage.exe registervm "C:\Users\Rhino\VirtualBox VMs\homestead\box-disk1.vmdk"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However the command above throws the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>VBoxManage.exe: error: Start tag expected, '&lt;' not found.
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Location: 'C:\Users\Rhino\VirtualBox VMs\homestead\box-disk1.vmdk', line 1 (0), column 1.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>