Hi,
SidPrice said: "Thanks for your help so far, it is much appreciated. I can't imagine how there are missing files as the archiving was done with a backup program that mirrors the "live" folders into the archive."
This can happen if the VM was running at the time of making that backup or if one of those files was being scanned by an antivirus program or some of the slices got moved by accident or there was not sufficient disk space or... .
A VM is a bit special in that respect and you sadly found out why I ended up writing a backup program specifically for backing up VM's.
From the looks at the contents of the files you share, you indeed are missing both slices in order to be able to use the VM.
If you want to be able to open the VM (some data will be gone!) and don't have access to the missing slices then:
- first make a copy of the whole folder so you don't loose more while trying to fix things.
- then make a copy of file "Windows 7 Pro x64-cl1-s040.vmdk" and rename it as "Windows 7 Pro x64-cl1-s005.vmdk"
- for the other missing slice, copy file "Windows 7 Pro x64-cl1-000002-s031.vmdk" and rename it into "Windows 7 Pro x64-cl1-000002-s002.vmdk".
After that the "cannot find file" error should be gone, but I cannot promise you that your VM will boot.
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Wil
