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smartgroupvoip
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Help - need tool to recover flat vmdk file or load VM with missing disk file

On VM with two virtual disks we deleted from the datastore by error one of the hard disks file -flat.vmdk (there were 5 snapshots)

We thought the deleted hard disk was not important (it was just for data that we have elsewhere) and that we would delete it form the VM and then start the VM without it, but the VM wont load. We are getting a "Error - Unable to enumerate all disks."

Is there any known good tool to recover the file? we didn't write anything new, so the info could be there...

We don't know why the VM keeps referencing to the missing hard drive even if we deleted from the VM configuration.

We were hoping the file could be recovered or a way to load the VM without it.

Appreciate any help.

Regards

Rod

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continuum
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Immortal

Please show us the current vmx-file you edited with the vmware.log it creates when you start the VM.


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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