Broken or missing delta files (snapshots) can make the entire disk unreadable.
Commercial tools can automate VMDK repair: corrupt vmdk recovery
# Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=12345678 parentCID=ffffffff createType="vmfs" Broken or missing delta files (snapshots) can make
RW 83886080 VMFS "myvm-flat.vmdk"
He had one option left: Manual reconstruction. rewriting the descriptor file.
He typed furiously, rewriting the descriptor file.
