Hi all,
Out of sheer desperation I have come to the forums seeking assistance!
We are running the latest version of Workstation 8 on a Dell T410 with Windows Server 2008 R2.
On Thursday last week we experienced major issues with our electricity supply, and our server unfortunately was switched off ungracefully. When the power was restored to our offices, I checked on the system, and discovered that one of our VM's are not starting up.
When I attempt to start the VM, I get the following error:
"Unable to open file "xxxxxx" One of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or by a snapshot".
I have tried to copy the VM files to separate HDD, but half way through I get "Invalid MS-DOS" function on one of the .VMDK files (snapshot).
I have also tried to use ROBOCOPY to copy the VM folder to another location, and I get the message "the filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect" in the command line output. This seems to be an issue with the VM snapshot file itself (.vmdk), as it only does it for this one particular file. I am concerned that there may be no way for us to recover this VM.
I have tried the following:
1. Removed and re-added the disk to the VM
2. Deleted all .lck files
3. Copying the VM to another location
We would like to obviously get the VM back up and running. We unfortunately do not have any recent backup of the VM either.
Please advise, if you can, if you perhaps have a procedure or some suggestions as to how we can restore our VM?
Many thanks!
Regards,
Greig