Just a few hours ago I was able to repair my corrupted vmdk with the vmware-vdiskmanager / R "Path to the VMDK File". It worked like a charm, my VM started to launch fast and stopped BSODing. It looks like for some reason it got corrupted again.

But now running vmware-vdiskmanager / R "Path to the VMDK File" just prints an error in the command prompt: SSLConfigLoad: Failed to load OpenSSL config file.

Googling this phrase returned exactly zero results.

Any suggestions are highly appreciated, thank you!