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Can't open VM after Windows Blue Screen

I updated my Windows 8 machine, it blue screened, now I can't open my VM that I had open at the time of the blue screen.

Attached is the message I got from VMware Workstation 10.

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Look out for *.lck files inside the directory of the VM - delete them all.
Also delete directories named *.lck

Then try again - if it still fails we need more details


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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continuum
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Look out for *.lck files inside the directory of the VM - delete them all.
Also delete directories named *.lck

Then try again - if it still fails we need more details


________________________________________________
Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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