Workstation Pro 15 Unable to open file .vmdk

[Chalityst]

Sorry' I'm not good at english.

Hello

I using vmware workstation pro 15 and have been compact disk. I saved workstation on my external hard disk, during compact processing 80% my hard drive usb it accident disconnect. I'm try to power on my workstation it show error "insufficient permissions" this point i just remove .lck file and it gave me error "The specified virtual disk needs repair" for vmware-vdiskmanager.exe method it not working for me with error "the virtual disk, Workstation.vmdk is corrupted and cannot be repaired"

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

I'm afraid that there's not much that can be done in this case, but I can take a look at the files if you want.

For a first overview, please run dir *.* > filelist.txt (or ls -lisa > filelist.txt in case of a Linux host) to list the files in the VM's folder. Then compress/zip the filelist.txt along with the vm's latest vmware.log, and attach the .zip archive to your next reply.

André

[Chalityst]

Thank you for your help

[a_p_]

I'm afraid that there's too much corruption in the file, and fixing this would be comparable a puzzle with thousands of pieces.

Unless you have a recent backup, and there's important data in this VM, you may try to find a recovery tool which is able to scan the .vmdk file, and detect/extract files by their patterns.

Sorry that I can't help you in this case.

André

[Chalityst]

Thanks for your help it's ok if my vm file is complete corrupted too hard for recovery.

[Chalityst · Accepted solution]

Solved : I use DiskGenius to convert new Virtual Disk file and copy old .nvram, .vmsd, .vmx, .vmxf, and .vmem it's work completely. In my case .vmdk look like partition table structure is bad.