Deleted vmdk files

[Cheeseman22]

We have a VM player hosted on it's own separate drive, That 500gb drive became full and instead of moving some of the vmdk files they were deleted. We still have 000001-000002.vmdk  and 00132.-000174.vdmk files intact with all snapshot files. 

Is there a way to make this VM usable again without the deleted file. We still have 240Gb of files but machine will not start.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

It really is a pity that the best VMDK-reading tool is not made by VMware.
Unfortunately this applies to all platforms : ESXi, Workstation and VMplayer

In this case we used an expensive thirdparty tool  and rare knowhow to extract data ....

Ulli