VMWARE 4.0 clone disk afterwords failed

[randombdk]

hello dear vmware users

a host of one of ourer customer failed due to bad corrupted drive

We have tried to clone th disk according to this:

http://blog.mwpreston.net/2011/10/14/cannot-power-on-virtual-machine-invalid-signature-in-change-tra...

The host will not start - only thing left is "Disk Read error ocurred" and press ctrl+alt+delete

File listning is this:

trust is the raid was very corrupted before but im hoping there was way to save the disk files?

Message was edited by: a.p. - fixed the link, it pointed to an OWA web page.

[continuum]

After hardware raid errors or bad disk errors I recommed to use gddrescue to copy vmdks to a clean datastore.

You say the VM starts with "Disk Read error ocurred" ?.

Next thing to do: use a LiveCD to boot the VM and check what is left - best to do that with a copy.
Maybe only the partitiontable of the VM is damaged and you can fix it with Testdisk