If -V found your volume, you can usually force a repair using the -R (Recover) switch. This attempts to rewrite the partition boundaries based on the volume header it found.
If your host reports the volume as a snapshot copy due to hardware path updates, mount it manually through the vSphere CLI using its label metadata: esxcli storage vmfs volume mount -l "Your_Datastore_Name" Use code with caution. vmfs repair partition table
Specialized third-party tools can scan disks for "magic numbers" (unique signatures) to identify lost VMFS volumes and automatically rebuild the table. If -V found your volume, you can usually
Run the repair command:
This command attempts to rebuild the MBR/GPT entry so the VMFS driver can mount the filesystem again. Specialized third-party tools can scan disks for "magic
Older legacy architectures typically align to a starting sector block offset of 128 . Running the Sector Calculation