Cloning can skip unreadable sectors, effectively recovering rest of the data.
mv VMName.vmdk VMName.vmdk.bak mv VMName-flat.vmdk VMName-flat.vmdk.bak mv VMName_repaired.vmdk VMName.vmdk mv VMName_repaired-flat.vmdk VMName-flat.vmdk esxi repair corrupt vmdk
Open the descriptor file in a text editor (like vi ): Cloning can skip unreadable sectors