Hi Guys,
I have a basic task to do, I need to extract a few files from a VMDK which was infected with a virus on a Windows 7 computer by mounting the VMDK file offline. The VMDK is from a Version 8 Virtual Machine running on a VMware vSphere environment 5.1.0 build 1123961.
To mount VMDK files offline, VMware has a tool called VMware-mount.exe which is part of the Virtual Disk Deployment Kit (VDDK). I downloaded "VMware-vix-disklib-5.1.0-774844.i386.exe" from the VMware website and installed it on a Windows 7 32bit workstation.
I then copied the Virtual Machine to the Windows 7 workstation by downloading it from the VMware datastore in VSphere Client.
When attempting to mount the VMware VMDK offline, I get the following error:
"Unable to mount the virtual disk. The disk may be in use by a virtual machine, may not have enough volumes or mounted under another drive letter. If not, verify that the file is a valid virtual disk file."
I have attached the errors to this forum thread. I followed the instructions for VMware-mount.exe exactly, what am I doing wrong?
Kind Regards,
Clint