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Re: Server Crashed , VMDK file is Corrupted , Help to Recover Data

continuum — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:36:10 GMT

Is this problem still hot ?

Ulli

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Re: Server Crashed , VMDK file is Corrupted , Help to Recover Data

Texiwill — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:02:07 GMT

Hello,

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The tools mentioned in the second could be helpful.

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Server Crashed , VMDK file is Corrupted , Help to Recover Data

Serversap — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:43:00 GMT

Hey Guys ,

Last week our DELL server got crashed lossing RAID configuration , we found out that one out of five HDD was defective so we replaced , and reconfgured RAID 5 , but server seems to be corrupted and cannot boot, by using WindowsPE vista +Active@ file recovery software we were able to recover the VM folders from Host , but these VMDK files seems to be corrupted and cannot work on another Host , niether they are getting mount from Vmware DiskMount utlity or VDK or Virtual Disk Provider , i have tried everything ,

attached is a screen shot of how the files are in VM folder right now , is there any way that i can recover the data from "E-HD.VMDK" file , this file is around 200 GB ,

any suggestions are welcome . and if any more information i can provide in this regard.

PS: JPG attached