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Hard Drive Problems-File Corrupted (VMWare VM File)
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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I am using a MacBook Pro and am using the newest version of VMWare and running a WIndows XP Pro VM with it.
Recently my hard drive starting experiencing problems and going bad so I promptly got a replacement drive. Fortunately most if not all of my files seemed to be fine and not corrupt. The problem is my .vmdk virtual drive file is corrupt. It's approximately 30GB and when I try to copy the file to the new hard drive it hits 1.6GB and just stops. I have tried a backup program such as SuperDuper but it just simply skips that file without any errors.
Unfortunately I had a lot of data in programs like Quicken, TurboTax, and others that would be hard to recreate. I had done a SuperDuper mirrored backup of my drive a couple weeks earlier but the problem with the VM must have already been there since it also was not copied on the backup.
Is there any way to get around this problem? Even if I'm unable to get the VM working I would be glad to set up a new Windows XP VM and reinstall programs if I can simply get to the data on the VM file. I know the problem may be just a small part of that large file.
Are there any utilities I should run that can possibly repair or get to the data on this file? Is my best option to take it into a hard drive recovery expert? Thank you for your help.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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There are utilities that may be able to help, such as Data Rescue 3. However, you've hopefully learned a lesson from this experience that many of us have had to learn the hard way ourselves: backups, you must have backups of critical data! Hard drives are very complex and pack an increasingly dense amount of data into very small spaces. If you look at the technology that they use to function, you'd be amazed that they work as well as they do. But drives fail, and you have to be prepared for that.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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You could try using another program -- virtualbox comes to mind -- to see if it'll load the VM.
Another idea is to try to mount the vmdk. Locate the vmdk file on your hard drive, right-click and choose open with ... vmdkmounter.
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Are you sure the new disk you're attempting to copy to is Mac formatted and not formatted as FAT32?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 
You could try using another program -- virtualbox comes to mind -- to see if it'll load the VM.
Another idea is to try to mount the vmdk. Locate the vmdk file on your hard drive, right-click and choose open with ... vmdkmounter.
I'm assuming the disk image is damaged and won't mount if it can't be copied properly, but maybe that would work.
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