Hello
I have a problem with my Windows 8 VM, it stopped working when I moved the physical SSD into another SATA port on the motherboard. I moved because it was running on the SATA2 instead of the SATA3 and its an SSD.
When I opened up VM Workstation 10 I was expecting to see the VM waiting to be resumed (it was suspended before I move SSD) but there was only the start option. I pressed start and it gave me a message
"Could not open virtual machine: E:\windows 8.1\Windows 8.1.vmx"
File not found
Then I looked in the directory and it was noware to be seen! Its just disappeared. I noticed that there is a file with suspend in the name, this too has disappeared at some point.
I have tried to recreate the .vmx file following these instructions:
VMware KB: Recovering a lost or deleted Workstation virtual machine configuration file
I used the same directory and name as the current VM. When I tried the VM I got this error:
"The file specified is not a virtual disk"
I then tried the again, this time using the same directory but a different name.
This time it loaded up but took ages, when it finally got to the sign in screen I put my password in as normal but when I looked through the C:\ drive all my programs and documents were missing!!
Really starting to panic now, I have loads of work on this VM. I have created snap shots but they are not showing up inside VMWare, the files are still there.
I someone would like to look via skype or team viewer please let me know and I will setup a screen share.
Thanks for reading, really hope someone can help.
James