Hello,
I had a Fusion Virtual machine on a Mac OS encrypted DMG file on an external USB drive, (Windows XP professional, running on Fusion 8.1.1 - on Mac OS 10.9.5) and the disk started failing. The virtual machine would boot, but then when I started copying files off it the DMG disk image would suddenly dismount. After many tries at copying the .vmwarevm file, each time the disk would dismount and the copy would fail. I also tried using dd in the terminal, but the same problem.
Then I went to the package contents of the file, and copied everything individually, which after many hours of remounting, and copying again, has succeeded.
I checked the files I copied, that they had the exact same number of bytes as the original files, and any that didn't, I copied again, until I now have all the files.
I now have them in a folder, which I added .vmwarevm to the file name, in the hopes that it would then boot from that. But Fusion says 'The file specified is not a virtual disk' even though I can still get the original to boot from the failing disk...
Inside the .vmwarevm are 32 vmdk files, part of the hard drive image. Most of them are 2.15GB in size, and there is also a VMDK 2kb file, and other files.
Is there anything I would have to do to make this copy into a bootable virtual image? All I want to do is get my data, then I am planning to create a new virtual image for all the data.
I assume some of the disk files have errors, but they are all exact copies of those on the failing disk, and that still boots.
Any suggestions of a way around this please, just enough to get my data?
Thanks
Siddie