continuum wrote:
kamijoutouma wrote:
take a look at the drive letter for my original on a second VMware its labeled as (E)
it changed when you loaded it in the second VMware you have to change it back to get it to work again by itself
find a way to change the drive letter outside of VMware and it should work again
im currently searching for a way to do so myself
Message was edited by: kamijoutouma please email me at michaelfox648@gmail.com if you were able to find a way to do this
Use a Windows PE CD.
Clean up and adjust HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices of the offline Windows.
load the offline registry and search for the "bad" driveletter and replace it with the "expected / good" one.
This is a painful work - you can expect hours of work and several failed attempts until you get everything right.
In case you dont have a Windows PE-CD - build or download one - dont use a normal Windows
i found a way to get your files back it worked for me took me like 2 hours to do if you have another vmware that had the same os as the one that lags now make a copy of it
take the lagging vmdk and attach it as a secondary virtual hard drive now that copy i told you to make earlier put it on a external hard drive
install inside the vmware winmount connect your (External) physical harddrive to the virtual machine and run win mount go to file and open and click the vmdk file on your (external physical) hard drive it doesnt matter what its mounted as cause it will still be C: in the end using this method (as long as the vmdk file is already using the drive letter C:) double click the vmdk file or the folder it was in and try to delete as much as possible
now go to the secondary hard drive the laggy one that already in the vmware through my computer or whatever it is on your vmware os (virtual os) and copy as many files as you can over to the vmdk file thats open in win mount unmount it power off
copy the vmdk file back to your comp from the hard drive attach it to the vmware as the primary hard drive power on and walla no more lagging
if this doesnt work you missed some files
dont worry about the files that give you access denied errors those are fine but you have to go into the folders at that point and delete the files that dont give errors if it still doesnt work contact me atmichaelfox648@gmail.com as this method worked for me and now my vmware is back thank god i had another version with the same os otherwise my files would have been gone
now to correctly extend it afterward do all the steps except diskpart
download the ubuntu iso to your comp go to vmware setting and choose iso file for cd/dvd drive and find the ubuntu iso save now play the vmware as soon as the boot menu comes up hit esc u should get boot options go down to cd/dvd drive and hit enter now click try ubuntu when its finishes loading click dash home the icon at the top on the left sidebar and type in gparted and hit enter and right click the C: drive and click move/extend or whatever it says when youve made the changes click the check when its done click close then go to your virtual machine settings and power and reset and dont touch anything let it load regularly and walla your space on your vmware has been successfully extended with no issues ive done this three times all the same result have fun
ok this is the only way to go if you want your files back and if you still want to extend the partition afterwards this all has to be done inside the vmware please dont powerdown the vmware unless stated in the instructions these instructions were provided to me by an IT at itt-tech which i go to school at hes done this several times so please follow my instruction
also continuum is right do not use diskpart what so ever it wont work im telling you now for your own benefit