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How to Open or Mount VMDK Disk Files to Recover Data without VMware Workstation
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hi in this video we're going to show you
how to open or mount a vmdk file in
windows so vmdk files are used by vmware
workstation as disk files so if you
don't have a vmware workstation
installed but you have a vmdk file you
want to access you could still do so and
if you did have vmware workstation
installed you could normally just right
click on it and mount it and then get
your files that way so in this case i
took this windows 10 vmdk file from
another computer put it on this computer
that doesn't have workstation to show
you that you can still access it so
there's two ways we're going to do it so
the first way we're just going to open
it using 7-zip file manager which is
similar to winrar
winzip that type of thing it's free
download i'll put a link in the
description
so once you open that you just need to
browse to your vmdk file
double click it
and then you'll need to pick the
partition if it has more than one so
this is a windows drive so it has the
system partition of microsoft reserve
partition so your best bet is just to
find the largest one and that's most
likely going to have your data there so
double click that
then you can see we have the documents
and settings program files users windows
that kind of thing let's say you wanted
to go to a user account into their
documents to get some files you could do
so here since this is just a test vm it
didn't have any actual documents on it
so let's say we wanted to copy you know
this file you could just drag it to your
desktop
and do so with any other type of file or
folder to get the data out of your vmdk
file so that's pretty simple
then the other way you could use this
program called
osf mount which is also free
and this lets you mount a vmdk file as a
drive in your computer
so once you download and install it just
click on mount new
browse to your image file
and you can mount it as a ram drive if
you want we're just going to do the disk
image here normal method
then once again pick the larger one
this guy here or you can mount the
entire thing
and you can mount it as removable media
if you want to change the drive type you
know probably auto should be fine
recognize it as a drive then you know
auto for drive letter or you could
change it let's do v for vmware
click on mount
so now it says it's mounted so if we go
back to file explorer here
you'll see we have this local disk v
mounted so we double click it
and once again we have all of our
user folders here
this time it had a little permission
problem with uh
getting into it since it's not the same
user account so you might run into that
but um other
files should be fine
that type of thing
then we should be able to
copy file over if we need to that type
of thing so
once again you know this this is one way
if you want to keep it permanently
mounted and access it on a regular basis
you can do that but you might have
security problems
if you don't have access to that user
account that you're trying to get to
like you just saw there so two ways to
do it
and i'll put like i said put the uh
links for both of those uh programs in
the description and then you could uh
access your files that way and when
you're done you can just go back here
you can dismount it
and now it'll take away the drive letter
and you'll be back in business
all right thanks for watching and be
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