Anybody ever have files go missing on their Virtualized System?
Here is the skinny on what happened.
I have a user with a VM running Win XP. The Host system's (OSX 10.6) hard drive crashed and it wont operate correcly unless kept under tempurature.
I was able to recover the Win XP virtual machine and get it running. But files that where created after 8/22/11 are gone.
I have made copies of the VM Machine and did various recoveries to see if I can find the files but there are no traces of them.
Any ideas what happened to these files? or possibly what I could do to recover them?
What I can do:
Start the VM and run it fine with VMFusion
Mount the VMDK files and view them from OSX
Below I have attached the original logs and the .vmx file. The VMX file looks corrupt.
Host System OSX 10.6
VM Windows XP Current updates
VMFusion 3.1.3
I tried to check out his time machine but the user was shutting down his vm then turning his Mac off so the Time Machine never had a chance to get a current copy of his VM files. So I need to see if I can recover the files from what I was able to get from the old drive.
TIA
Chad