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RaysonW
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[Urgent] Recover data from reverted snapshot and enlarged disk

Dear all,

I tried to enlarge a VM disk because of not enough space available in the virtual hard disk.  However, I accidentally reverted a snapshot 1 month ago before enlarging the disk.  As a result, there is no snapshot left (all snapshots are removed because this is required to enlarge the C:) and 1 month of data lost.

The only files left are the enlarged -flat.vmdk file, some 000x vmdk files (2 of them are date just before the enlargement), no snapshot.  The original vmdk file is not available, but the vmx file is (I have an old copy of the VM, but there was no vmdk file in it).

Is it possible to recover the data from the 000x vmdk file?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Rayson

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AureusStone
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Doesn't sound good.  No backups I guess?

Could you attach a screenshot of the datastore browser with all of the filenames and file sizes.

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RaysonW
Contributor
Contributor

Is the command prompt ls -al output works?

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