I installed Ubuntu 14 using the easy install. It worked fine. Did some work, etc,
I go to shutdown ubuntu so I can make some vm setting changes.
I go to restart the vm. It now says Operating System not found.
I have files on that VM that I urgently need to recover as I have to have them for a job application asap.
Does anybody have any ideas how I can recover my data?
I've tried forcing the startup disk to be the hd...no luck
Any help greatly appreciated.
Steve:smileyplain::smileyangry:
boot your vm from the iso as a cdrom. then you can mount your vm hardisk and copy your files off.
btw, ubuntu 16.04 just got released today.
I was going to suggest mounting the Ubuntu drive using Paragon VMDK Mounter, which is free. However, I just tried mounting an Ubuntu 14.04 disk and it could not do it. It does work with my Windows VM, maybe it can only mount Windows disk formats, the software web site doesn't say. YYMV.
There may be a similar product that can do this for Linux, but I don't know what that would be.
You need to install a file system driver for Linux, like Paragon ExtFS
Is there a .iso connected to the virtual DVD drive? It might be trying to boot off that.
To recover data from the 'broken' vm, you can try a couple of things.
- Make a New VM using a new virtual disk, then add an existing hard disk (after Ubuntu finishes installing), and choose the 'broken' disk. You'll have to manually mount it most likely, but the file system should be intact.
- Make a new VM using the existing "broken" disk. It will try to boot up from that.