The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created

[Uncle_Rocky]

Yikes! I didn't even remember that the drive was clone. Now I guess there is no way to ever open the child?

[continuum]

There is a way ...

Read this

http://sanbarrow.com/vmdk-basic-CID-chain-repair.html

it shows how to procede .

The example is slightly different than yours but the technic is the same.

Check it out and come back in case you have problems

Ulli

[Uncle_Rocky]

Danke, Continuum.

I take it that a hex editor was used to modify the file? I will give it a try, but it's not too critical. For some reason, last week I had moved all my data files from the guest to my host. I think I'll just keep all data off of the guest, and never clone.

Bis spater,

Rich