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Attach a Linux live CD or Windows recovery media → repair bootloader.

To recover a VMware virtual machine when you only have the -flat.vmdk file, you must recreate its missing (the small .vmdk text file that tells the hypervisor how to read the raw data). This situation typically occurs if a VM appears "missing" in the datastore browser or triggers a "File not found" error despite the large data file still existing. recover virtual machine from flat vmdk