ddb.adapterType = "ide" ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16383" ddb.geometry.heads = "16" ddb.geometry.sectors = "63" ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
For quick recovery, try vmware-vdiskmanager -R . For manual control, edit the descriptor file yourself. Either way, your VM can live again. how to recover vmdk from flat file
# Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=12345678 parentCID=ffffffff createType="twoGbMaxExtentSparse" RW 4194304 VMFS "MyVM-flat.vmdk" The Disk Data Base #DDB how to recover vmdk from flat file
Template for – works for most small/legacy VMDKs: how to recover vmdk from flat file