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Workstation 16.1.1 Pro Defragment guest hard disk error and now missing VMDK

Hello

Host hard disk getting low on space so I decided to defragment VM drives

First one, against a pre-allocated 80gb drive gave me an error I was not expecting...

This is my main development VM so had all my Visual Studios and code on it.

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After that I tried to start VM to look at why it determines a virus or unwanted software (not being explicit here?)

I then discovered the process had deleted the file for the host.

The Windows 10 Dev-00004.vmdk file was gone, not showing in folder or recycle bin.

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Any ideas why this would occur and if this is recoverable?

In true error style, my backup is a few weeks old and I had a couple of code projects with lots of work done that I had not committed yet :disappointed_face:

 

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