My Host and Guest OS are both Windows 10 Pro.
My Guest OS consists of 5 virtual disks.
I am using VMware Workstation 17 Pro version17.6.3 build-24583834
Clean Up Disk was stuck on - Reclaimable space: 554.4 GB
Never getting - Cleanup is not necessary
At that point - Disk space used by the virtual machine was: 1.7 TB
Does anyone know of software that can repair corrupt VMDK files?
I have only found software that can check for errors and recover data
from damaged VMDK files.
In lieu of such software I fixed my problem as follows.
After some research I found that the problem with Clean Up Disk not working had to do with:
Hard Disk 2 (NMVe) 2 TB (in Virtual Machine Settings) - Current Size 1.2 TB, and
In Windows Properties (in the Guest OS) the Used space was only 636 GB.
I then Removed Hard Disk 2 (in Virtual Machine Settings), and
moved the associated VMDK files to a temporary folder.
After this Clean Up Disk yielded:
Disk space used by this virtual machine: 551,4 GB
- CLEANUP IS NOT NECESSARY
Then after adding a NEW virtual disk and another using an EXISTING virtual disk
- i.e. the VMDK files that I had moved to a temporary folder.
I booted the Guest OS, and after some Disk Management, I copied everything
from my old to my new disk volume.
Finally after shutting down the Guest OS I removed the EXISTING virtual disk.
Now Clean Up Disk yielded:
Disk space used by this virtual machine: 1.2 GB
- Reclaimable space 64 KB
NOT - Cleanup is not necessary
but OK!
Size in Virtual Machine Settings reduced from 1.7 TB to 1.2 TB i.e. by 0.5 TB
Size on disk reduced from 1,70 TB to 1.15 TB i.e. by 0.55 TB
With my Guest OS running I have:
1)
Run CHKDSK on all disk volumes with the following switches: /F /R
a.
After system restart, when running CHKDSK C: /F /R
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
No further action is required.
b.
And when running CHKDSK on ALL the other disk volumes
Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.
c.
And all ended with: 0 KB in bad sectors.
.
My Hard Disk 2 (NMVe) 2 TB has Drive Letter E:\
2)
Run Windows Disk Cleanup on ALL disk volumes
a.
On all disk volumes, except C:\
You don't need to scan this drive.
b.
Disk Clean Up for WinOS (C:)
Total amount of disk soace you gain 4.16 GB
c.
I have also in Virtual Machine Settings Defragmented and Compacted ALL virtual drives.
.
But none of these actions remedied my problem.