VMX file missing after moving the hard drive

Hello

I have a problem with my VM Windows 8, it has stopped working when I moved the physical SSD in a different SATA port on the motherboard. I moved because he was running on the SATA2 instead of the SATA3 and its an SSD.

When I open VM Workstation 10 I expected to see the virtual machine waiting to be taken up (he was suspended before moving on SSD) but there was only the start option. I pressed start and it gave me a message

"Could not open computer virtual: E:\windows 8.1\Windows 8.1.vmx.

File not found

Then I looked in the phone book and it was noware to be seen! It's just gone. I noticed that there is a file to suspend in the name, it also disappeared at some point.

I tried to recreate the file .vmx following these instructions:

VMware KB: Recovery of a lost or deleted Workstation virtual machine configuration file

I used the same directory and the name of the current virtual machine. When I tried the virtual machine, I got this error:

"The specified file is not a virtual disk.

I then tried the again, this time using the same directory, but a different name.

This time it loaded up, but took a long time, when he finally got the sign in screen that I put my password as normal, but when I looked through the C:\ drive all my programs and documents had disappeared!

Really starting to panic now, I have loads of work on this virtual machine. I created snapshots, but they do not display inside VMWare, the files are still there.

I have someone would watch via Skype or team Viewer please let me know and I will set up a screen sharing.

Thanks for reading, hope someone can help.

James

Can you confirm that you have changed the hard with VMware Workstation closed? And you fixed the problem on the disk that appeared when you ran chkdsk?

What you can try is to see if it works to clone the virtual disk manually by running

VMware - vdiskmanager.exe, t 0 - r 'Windows 8.1 - 000001.vmdk' 'Windows 8.1 - Clone.vmdk.

(you may need to provide the full path to the executable file)

If it doesn't work, that shows the same error message: the GUI?

André

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