So I was operating on my vm, on vmware player for ubuntu (host), and all of a sudden I got the error 'The file specified is not a virtual disk', when trying to run the vm.
Not sure if this helps, but below are the entries in the log file indicating the error:
2015-03-05T21:34:20.776+01:00| vmplayer| I120: DISKLIB-LINK : "/media/joey/Used for VMs/Windows 7-vmware.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
2015-03-05T21:34:20.776+01:00| vmplayer| I120: DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/media/joey/Used for VMs/Windows 7-vmware.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
It would be much appreciated if I get help to recover data within this vmdk as the data on it is rather important.
Thanks in Advanced.
J