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  • 1.  The system cannot find the file specified .vmdk

    Posted Jun 25, 2018 08:28 AM

    When trying to open my VM I am getting this error message (haven't opened in a while):

    Unable to open file "Virtual Machines/Boot camp/Virtual Disk 4.vmdk":

    The system cannot find the file specified.

    i seeing this file is present in the path. but i open it with notepad, there is so many files missing. how can i restore the missing file? and i don't know why they are missing?

    # Disk DescriptorFile

    version=1

    encoding="UTF-8"

    CID=feb9865e

    parentCID=ffffffff

    isNativeSnapshot="no"

    createType="twoGbMaxExtentSparse"

    # Extent description

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s001.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s002.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s003.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s004.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s005.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s006.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s007.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s008.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s009.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s010.vmdk"

    RW 20480 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s011.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s012.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s013.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s014.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s015.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s016.vmdk"

    RW 10240 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s017.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s018.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s019.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s020.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s021.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s022.vmdk"

    RW 10240 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s023.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s024.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s025.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s026.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s027.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s028.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s029.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s030.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s031.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s032.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s033.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s034.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s035.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s036.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s037.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s038.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s039.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s040.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s041.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s042.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s043.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s044.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s045.vmdk"

    RW 4192256 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s046.vmdk"

    RW 823168 SPARSE "Virtual Disk 4-s047.vmdk"

    # The Disk Data Base

    #DDB

    ddb.adapterType = "ide"

    ddb.deletable = "true"

    ddb.geometry.cylinders = "179693"

    ddb.geometry.heads = "16"

    ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

    ddb.longContentID = "ff9a6cc311716ea106e8ae18feb9865e"

    ddb.toolsInstallType = "1"

    ddb.toolsVersion = "10252"

    ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 94 5b ef 78 67-b5 4b e9 13 7f ff 10 dd"

    ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"

    Thank you

    Attachment(s)

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    Virtual Disk 4.vmdk.zip   668 B 1 version


  • 2.  RE: The system cannot find the file specified .vmdk

    Posted Jun 29, 2018 02:11 AM

    The names of the missing files are:

    "Virtual Disk 4-s001.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s002.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s003.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s004.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s005.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s006.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s007.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s008.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s009.vmdk"

    "Virtual Disk 4-s010.vmdk"

    Unfortunately restoring the first one from scratch is next to impossible.
    In your case the first 10 are missing - I could not recover this scenario.
    All you can do now is use tools that do a signature-based raw scan and recover single files by extensions .... *.jpg or *.png