Windows 7.vmdk has one or more internal errors that cannot be fixed

[Alber2Colme]

Hello

I am running Windows 7 in vmware 3.1.3 and after my mac froze I cannot restart vmware. I get an error meesage saying that the Windows 7.vmdk file has errors. I tried to follow the instructions to fix it by running:

sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\  Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -R /Users/yourusername/Documents/Virtual\  Machines.localized/Windows\ XP.vmwarevm/Windows\ XP.vmdk

But I get an error message saying that :

The virtual disk, '/Users/acs/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk', is corrupted and cannot be repaired.

I have attached the log file.

I hope someone can help me.

By the way this happends after I compressed the c drive in windows 7.

[continuum]

vmware-vdiskmanager -R only works if you use it before Fusion tells you that the disk needs repair.
It almost never works at a later stage

anyway - you talk about a Windows 7VM but the comand you use is for a XP - VM ? - is that correct ?

I would copy the vmdk to a 32bit Windows host and try to read it with vdk.exe, winimage or other tools.

Sorry - I dont know any tool for Mac OS that I can recommend for such a task.

[WoodyZ]

Sorry - I dont know any tool for Mac OS that I can recommend for such a task.

Ulli, Alber2Colme is using VMware Fusion 3.1.3 so VMDKMounter is the buil-in VMware Fusion option however with the vmware.log file showing there is an 4096 excess bytes at end of file on each of the extents I doubt that VMDKMounter will mount it however wanted to let you know that Fusion 2 and 3 have that tool, was remove in 4.x and is not present in 5.x.  Some of the Power Users keep a copy from 3.x and use it in 4.x and 5.x.  (I actually use WinImage at times because I can directly run WinApps under OS X with Wine and X11.

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  Some of the Power Users keep a copy from 3.x and use it in 4.x and 5.x.

I am not surprised - on Windows I keep several older version of vdiskmanager.

So far I found no better tool to mount half dead vmdks than vdk.exe - 32bit on 2003 or XP.
vdk often even handles unexpected vmdk  filesize quite well

[WoodyZ]

So far I found no better tool to mount half dead vmdks than vdk.exe - 32bit on 2003 or XP.
vdk often even handles unexpected vmdk  filesize quite well

Totally agree and I've been using vdk.exe since before VMware had their disk mount tool.