I have a corrupt VM and I was wondering if anyone on the forum would be able to help me repair it?
Log files - https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjlPKu70xbLAhr1P4xACu_CEdaYeeA?e=gvwxw0
then i have to fix my backups and figure out why they weren't running!
What makes you say it is corrupt?
What errors do you get?
Look inside the VM package and post a file listing.
That's strange, the error message shows "Windows 7 x64-s013.vmdk" as being inconsistent, but the log files lists errors for "Windows 7 x64-s025.vmdk". To get a better overview, please extract the folder with the VM's files from the log bundle, compress/zip it and attach the .zip archive to your next reply. This will provide an overview of files, file sizes etc, that's needed for the next steps.
André
Here is the log bundle - https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjlPKu70xbLAhr1P4xACu_CEdaYeeA?e=0lTgTM
I think a detailed file listing is what was requested (which I also suggested in my previous reply), you don't need to post or share the actual VM files.
I actually thought of the VM's folder from within the log bundle, i.e. the metadata files without the user data (-s00x.vmdk) files. Anyway, what should be sufficient after seeing the screenshot, is the "Windows7 x64.vmdk". Either compress/zip this file, and attach it to your next reply, or simply post its contents.
André
any thoughts?
Nice! A VM created with an old VMware Fusion version and resized a couple of times with a new version.
Assuming that only the two .vmdk files mentioned so far have issues, please run the below mentioned commands to extract the files' metadata. Then compress/zip the two .bin files, and attach them to your next reply. In addition to this I need the two .vmdk files' exact size in Bytes (e.g. the output of ls -l).
The command to run from within the VM's folders:
dd if="Windows 7 x64-s013.vmdk" of="Metadata-013.bin" bs=512 count=640
dd if="Windows 7 x64-s025.vmdk" of="Metadata-025.bin" bs=512 count=1024
André
*popcorn.gif*
msgreenf@ghctimPro Windows 7 x64.vmwarevm % ls -l
total 111940576
drwxr-xr-x 98 msgreenf staff 3136 Sep 22 2019 Applications
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 4294967296 May 1 2019 Windows 7 x64-e7073f40.vmem
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2141585408 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s001.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2140995584 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s002.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2103181312 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s003.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2115895296 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s004.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2123235328 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s005.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2115895296 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s006.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2142633984 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s007.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2103508992 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s008.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2107834368 Jun 29 15:16 Windows 7 x64-s009.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2121465856 Jun 29 15:21 Windows 7 x64-s010.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2109341696 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s011.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2091253760 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s012.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 1773469696 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s013.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2029256704 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s014.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 1989541888 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s015.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2052915200 Jun 29 15:21 Windows 7 x64-s016.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2047737856 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s017.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 1968766976 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s018.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 1990656000 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s019.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 2089353216 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s020.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 19070976 Jun 29 15:14 Windows 7 x64-s021.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 4029087744 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s022.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 2821783552 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s023.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 1197801472 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s024.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 1028718592 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s025.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 1375666176 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64-s026.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 524288 Jun 28 16:42 Windows 7 x64-s027.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 524288 Jun 28 16:42 Windows 7 x64-s028.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 524288 Oct 25 2018 Windows 7 x64-s029.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 65536 Oct 25 2018 Windows 7 x64-s030.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 524288 May 27 2020 Windows 7 x64-s031.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 524288 May 27 2020 Windows 7 x64-s032.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 475594752 Jun 29 15:21 Windows 7 x64-s033.vmdk
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 196608 Jun 29 15:15 Windows 7 x64-s034.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 8684 Jun 29 05:52 Windows 7 x64.nvram
-rw-r--r-- 1 msgreenf staff 1527 Jun 30 13:42 Windows 7 x64.plist
-rw-------@ 1 msgreenf staff 1973 Jun 29 15:15 Windows 7 x64.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 msgreenf staff 67 Jun 29 15:09 Windows 7 x64.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 msgreenf staff 7816 Jun 29 15:22 Windows 7 x64.vmx
drwxrwxrwx 3 msgreenf staff 96 Jun 29 05:11 Windows 7 x64.vmx.lck
-rw-r--r--@ 1 msgreenf staff 4155 May 20 06:26 Windows 7 x64.vmxf
drwxr-xr-x 7 msgreenf staff 224 Jul 17 2011 appListCache
drwxr-xr-x 3 msgreenf staff 96 Apr 5 19:31 caches
-rw-r----- 1 msgreenf staff 92252 Jun 29 06:32 mksSandbox-0.log
-rw-r----- 1 msgreenf staff 168524 Jun 29 06:25 mksSandbox-1.log
-rw-r----- 1 msgreenf staff 168524 Jun 29 06:11 mksSandbox-2.log
-rw-r----- 1 msgreenf staff 92258 Jun 29 15:22 mksSandbox.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 msgreenf staff 0 Mar 25 2020 quicklook-cache.png
drwxr-xr-x 3 msgreenf staff 96 Jul 9 2011 screenshotsCache
-rw-r--r-- 1 msgreenf staff 900635 Jun 29 15:22 startMenu.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 msgreenf staff 6577382 Sep 24 2011 vmmcores-4.gz
-rw------- 1 msgreenf staff 8272619 Feb 11 2020 vmmcores-5.gz
-rw-r--r--@ 1 msgreenf staff 396148 Jun 29 06:32 vmware-0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 msgreenf staff 455877 Jun 29 06:25 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 msgreenf staff 1058529 Jun 29 06:11 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r--@ 1 msgreenf staff 415128 Jun 29 15:22 vmware.log
I have no idea what may have caused this, but parts of the metadata were overwritten by binary zeroes, 8kb in one file and ~4kb in the other one. I was able to fix the metadata, but I'm neither sure whether other parts of the files have also been overwritten, nor whether other files are affected too. Therefore, please ensure that you backup all the current files before taking any action!!!
Once backed up, extract the two files from the attached .zip archive into the VM's folder, and inject the data into the two corrupted .vmdk files using the following commands.
dd if="Metadata-013-fixed.bin" of="Windows 7 x64-s013.vmdk" bs=512 count=640 conv=notrunc
dd if="Metadata-025-fixed.bin" of="Windows 7 x64-s025.vmdk" bs=512 count=1024 conv=notrunc
André
vm boots but it's still not right start menu doesn't open for example. Anything else to try?
Is there another kind of report I can generate for you? Is there maybe a different corrupt file?
The all happened when i was booting a VM and my mac BSOD.