Need immediate help? Always power off the affected VM and avoid writing to the datastore until recovery is complete.
Open the new new.vmdk in a text editor. Replace the RW line with: flat vmdk recovery
In VMware environments, a Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) exists in two parts: Need immediate help
The most common way to recover a flat VMDK is to recreate its missing descriptor file. This allows VMware to "see" the data again. flat vmdk recovery