Hi continuum,
Many thanks for the help. Yes. 7-zip has successfully worked and PowerISO also opened the .vmdk but wouldn't mount. The client would like me to test various methods of accessing the .vmdk. Hence looking into 'mounting as drive' option.
On another note, just noticed when mounting via 'VMware-mount /m:n G: 'D:\spec\spec-disk2.vmdk' it comes out clean.
With 'vmware-mount /L' , it does list -> 'G:\ => D:\spec\spec-disk2.vmdk''.
It just am unable to access it. It says G drive doesn't exists.