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  You need to do something to free space on your drive, aiming for 20 percent of capacity.

  Move or delete some files to free disk spaceand then try again the Chkdsk utility.

  Important: Running chkdsk on the drive if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data can be lost.

  Please post back with the State of the question.

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  As you can see from the output

  ~ snip ~

  drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 28 Dec 23:08 50de22a5-f4afafa0-f7b5-001517197ad8
  root drwxr-xr-x 1 root 8 1 January 1970 50df4c30-82b86e61-8522-001517197ad8
  lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 1 Jan 22:21 640GB_WD_Black_AALS-1 -> 50de22a5-f4afafa0-f7b5-001517197ad8

  ~ snip ~

  the UUID is a store existing data "640GB_WD_Black_AALS-1".

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  Visit this link

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  DISC: Scsi0:0 [OPEN ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' persistent R]
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.022Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001-delta.vmdk ': open with success (10) size = 5620404224, hd = 213826. Type 8
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.022Z | VMX | DISKLIB-DSCPTR: open [0]: "Server-000001 - delta.vmdk ' (0xa)
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.022Z | VMX | DISKLIB-LINK: open ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' (0xa): vmfsSparse, 35526656 sectors / 16.9 GB.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-flat.vmdk ': open with success (14) size = 18189647872, hd = 181059. Type 3
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-DSCPTR: open [0]: 'server - flat hard' (0xe)
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-LINK: open ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server.vmdk' (0xe): vmfs, 35526656 sectors / 16.9 GB.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB LINK: DiskLinkIsAttachPossible: incompatibility of the content ID (parentCID f72e60c7! = f05537b3) /vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server.vmdk.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-STRING: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server.vmdk ': cannot open (the virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created.) The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent for children's content).
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001-delta.vmdk ': closed.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-flat.vmdk ': closed.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-LIB: can't open ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' with the virtual disk 0xa flags parent has changed since the child was created. The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent for children (18) content.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DRIVE: Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk ': the virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created. The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent for children (18) content.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | Msg_Post: error
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | [msg.disk.noBackEnd] unable to open drive ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | [msg.disk.configureDiskError] reason: the virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created. The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent matching the child content.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX |

  Thanks again for any direction you can provide!

  / r

  John

  The parentCID of the snapshot must match the CID from its parent, as shown in the log file

  "... The content ID mismatch (parentCID f72e60c7! = f05537b3)... »

  Server.VMDK

  CID = f05537b3
  parentCID = ffffffff

  Server - 000001.vmdk

  CID = a2b9ba8b
  parentCID = f72e60c7---> f05537b3

  Make sure you change the file on the host using the vi editor or - if you want to change the file in Windows - use an editor who is aware of the line breaks Unix (do not use Notepad!)

  Once this is done, I highly recommend that you take another cliché before you on the virtual computer. This prevents existing virtual disk files to be modified, so that you can return to this State where you need. After that everything works as expected, consider deleting all snapshots.

  André