Hello Everyone,
I have an issue that I have never encountered before, and I am stuck on how to address it.
I have a Windows 10 Pro virtual machine running on a Windows 10 Pro host via Workstation Pro 16. A couple of days ago, an automatic check disk ran and now I have a situation in which 1 vmdk is showing 0 bytes, and another vmdk is completely missing!
original.vmdk - good
original-000001.vmdk - 0 bytes
original-000002.vmdk - good
original-000003.vmdk - missing
original-000004.vmdk - good
I have checked for back-ups, but unfortunately, a certificate was updated on the server side, and my back-up jobs weren't working. That is obviously another issue...
When I first found the problem, the VM would not boot. I rolled back to a valid snapshot, and now the VM boots. My problem at this point is that Workstation throws an error anytime I attempt to delete an old snapshot or create a new snapshot. Since I am certain my vmdks that are either 0 bytes or missing are toast, I am not concerned with spending time trying to recover them. I tried the "vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -R "Path\to\file.vmdk" trick, and it accomplished nothing.
I am wondering if anyone knows how to take a VM that is operating, and effectively clean-up the dependencies on these previous snapshots/files. I would happy if I could simply start creating snapshots from my current state and move forward.
Thank you for your time and assistance!
