Bad sectors on the physical SAN or local RAID array.
Before running any repair or mounting commands, make a copy of the corrupted .vmdk and its associated flat/delta files (like -flat.vmdk or -delta.vmdk ) to a separate storage location. Perform all recovery operations on this copy. extract files from corrupt vmdk
Open the descriptor file in a text editor (like Notepad++ or vi). Bad sectors on the physical SAN or local RAID array
Right-click the .vmdk file and select Map Virtual Disk . Choose a drive letter and ensure "Read-only" is checked to prevent further corruption. or monolithic sparse). Corruption here means:
Modern VMDKs use a format (hosted, stream-optimized, or monolithic sparse). Corruption here means: