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HELP! I'm about to friggin KILL MYSELF! How could this have happened!!! WTF posted: Apr 6, 2006 12:18 PM

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JackOWNZ
17 posts since
Jan 31, 2006
I had a Windows 98 Virtual Machine for a while now, it worked perfectly fine! FOR CHRIST's SAKE I WAS JUST USING IT A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO!

I had important stuff on there, and now the HDD File messed up! WHAT THE **** happened!? I haven't been messing with settings, haven't done a damn thing.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7961/213123sadas0ek.jpg

Something is VERY WRONG HERE! It was a 3GB File now it takes up 0 friggin MB in the folder.

Nobody else uses this comp, it's 100% clean, no spyware no virtuses, nothing.
I need the stuff I had on it, how the heck am I supposed to get my stuff back now when the god damn file messed up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never been this pissed in my life, EVER.

Here's some info, not that you need it:
Host OS XP with SP2
2GB RAM
Athlon 3500+

Re: HELP! I'm about to friggin KILL MYSELF! How could this have happened!!!

1. Apr 6, 2006 12:25 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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JackOWNZ
17 posts since
Jan 31, 2006
Please people! Someone say something this is terrible, important files were lost, I dont know whats wrong! There's no way for me to fix this because I DO NOT understand what the **** happened here.

I did run scandisc earlier, but that couldn't have deleted my file, I mean the file is there, it's just 0B instead of 3GB.

Another thing, my free Disc Space hasn't changed! I had 19GB Free before and I still do :( WHAT THE HELL!

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2. Apr 6, 2006 12:30 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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JackOWNZ
17 posts since
Jan 31, 2006
OH GOD! System Restore has been turned OFF all this time! I'm seriously considering ending myself dammit, I can NEVER EVER recover all these files, it's impossible!

I had lots of VERY IMPORTANT documents and what not there, I MUST GET THEM BACK!!!!!!

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3. Apr 6, 2006 12:33 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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Raymond
620 posts since
Mar 1, 2004
Hi there,

Under Windows Explorer what is the size of the vmdk file? Have you tried to remove the virtual disk and then try to add it back pointing to your vmdk file?

The other thing is you always need to have a working good backup of your data, no matter if is physical or virtual.

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4. Apr 6, 2006 12:34 PM in response to: Raymond
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JackOWNZ
17 posts since
Jan 31, 2006
It's 0byts, that's waht freakes me out so much dude. I dont get it.
It was 3GB just moments ago.

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5. Apr 6, 2006 12:35 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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RDPetruska
15,875 posts since
Jan 11, 2005
... And, this, boys and girls, is why one should *always* keep a zipped up copy of every one of your VM folders.

Jack,
Have you submitted a Service Request? The folks who frequent these forums are mostly users just like yourself. Any more information (product version/build, post the vmx file, post the descriptor file for the vmdk (if it's not a monolithic sparse file), exact error message, exact steps you were doing between when it worked and when it didn't anymore)?
Rob

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6. Apr 6, 2006 12:45 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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JackOWNZ
17 posts since
Jan 31, 2006
Here's a pic of the file, see it's 0KB it used to be 3GB.
http://img448.imageshack.us/img448/7357/213wdsas9ql.jpg

The error message I'm getting is that this is not a valid virtual HDD file and of course it's not when it's 0KB o_O

Now here's what I did today.

I added some more RAM, had some trouble with that so windows wouldn't boot and I had to manually restart the comp, after that windows wanted to run scandisk but I skipped it, XP was working fine since I fixed the RAM issue, I was using my virtual machine with win98 no problems, everything's working nice and smooth, I quit that, played some Oblivion and that being the glitchy game that it is it froze so I had to reset my comp again, note that this happened like once before, for me Oblivion is VERY stable.
Now Scandisk started before XP booted up, it did it's thing, XP loaded up fine, I played more Oblivion and then decided to load up 98 to check something and this happaned.

I did run a 1 Click Maintenance with TuneUp 2006, I do that every day, pretty much no problems were found, everything was cool, never EVER had a problem with that

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7. Apr 6, 2006 12:46 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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rlsf
5 posts since
Mar 29, 2006
If you purchased the product, Forget this place and call tech support right now.
If you are a trial user, call and talk to sales for tesh support.
If you have not purchased the program, ya might as well forget about your case being looked at in a reasonable time frame.

I feel for ya & hope you get some resolution.

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=37429&messageID=378254#378254.

This is what happened to me. I have yet to hear anything constructive in here. Tech support will not help, my only option is to use the tech support at the sales dept.
Or either Purchase the program, or pay 90 something dollare per issue.

Microsoft could not even resolve my issue, after being escalated to their highest tech support level. I had almost 18 hours of online telephone support with MSoft..
Total tech support from vmware=0.
Oops, that is an error, I did make a telephone call and ask when my trouble ticket would be worked on. They told me it was a non issue and basically goes to the bottom of the pile if there are any issues with ppl who have purchased.
So considering that, I have had about 3 min of support from vmware.

Good luck on your problem. I would go straight to the highest help you can afford. If you purchased, or pay the 90 or so bucks, they will work with you pretty soon.

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8. Apr 6, 2006 12:52 PM in response to: rlsf
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dolphans1
118 posts since
Jan 3, 2005
It seems you are clicking on the wrong one......

d-1

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9. Apr 6, 2006 12:55 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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JackOWNZ
17 posts since
Jan 31, 2006
It seems you are clicking on the wrong one......

Dude, I know what I'm doing man.
I have two HDDs on that virtual machine, both 3GB, my primary one messed up, the seconday one is fine.

Problem is however, I had lots of stuff on the main, primary one

I mean LOTS of stuff.

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10. Apr 6, 2006 12:55 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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dolphans1
118 posts since
Jan 3, 2005
Sorry Jack, I feel for you and I must have missed you had 2 3GB HDDS, it seems strange that it just disappeared.

d-1

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11. Apr 6, 2006 12:58 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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JackOWNZ
17 posts since
Jan 31, 2006
Well guys, it's too late for help now. I just got rid of the 0KB file and made a new copied a HDD with a clean, Win 98 install :(

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12. Jun 14, 2006 6:44 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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Cutmyself
2 posts since
Jun 14, 2006
Go for it. Life is like a race... first one to the finish line wins.

*sigh*

If you need some help with the final stretch, I'm here, bro... I'm here...

*Sigh*

...

...

...

Well, I'd love to console you more, but life is just too painful.

*Sigh*

So much pain... in the world...

*Sigh*

I don't think I bled enough today... better go fix that...

*sigh*

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13. Jun 14, 2006 11:08 PM in response to: JackOWNZ
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random0000
18 posts since
Jun 13, 2006
Recordable CDROM drive = $20
CD recordable media = $.20
Losing lots of VERY IMPORTANT documents because you didn't spend a lousy $20.20 = PRICELESS!

Seriously though - there is no excuse these days to not have backups of your critical data. Use that head thingy - it comes in handy sometimes.

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14. Jun 15, 2006 1:46 AM in response to: JackOWNZ
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telfred
1,261 posts since
Aug 12, 2005
Was the Windows 98 guest setup as FAT16 or FAT32 ?

One serious word of advice unless you really have to don't use Win9x, it is flaky at the best of times. Bare in mind that the Windows 98 guest was simulating FAT on the host Windows XP NTFS which is just a processing overhead that you could do without.
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