I have a VMware image on a external hard disk, but the power supply shut off abruptly. The next time I tried to start that image, the image started booting into the OS (Windows XP), but would subsequently hang, resulting in the below image:
When I forced the VMware software to close, I got this message:
VMware Workstation cannot sync with
disk before abort. Disk *.vmdk may be
inconsistent.
Here's the extra message:
Operation on File *.vmdk failed. If the file reside on a remote file
system, please make sure that your network connection and the server
where this disk resides are functioning properly. If the file resides
on removable media, reattach the media.
And when I examine the directory of the VMWare image, I found that there are a lot of funny named files and folders, and I presume that there are the local copy of my residue OS.
How can I fix this problem so that my OS image can load again? In other words, how to recover from this power failure?
Best Answer
I found the problem.
It's because the disk where the VM image resides in is corrupted. If I go to
I will find this message:
This indicates that there are bad sectors.
In this case, the only solution seems to be changing the hard disk all together.