Hello,
I am relatively new to VMWare. I had installed a VMWare Server 2 sometime back. The host operating system is Windows Server 2008 64 bit version. I created 2 virtual machines. THe guest operating systems were Windows Server 2003 Web Edition and Windows Server Standard. The host crashed yesterday. I had to hard reset it. After the host was up, VMWare would not come up. I uninstalled VMWare. Took help from community posts how to uninstall and delete files, clean registry. Then I installed VMWare server 2 again. The install succeeded. Now I created 2 new virtual machines (there were no virtual machines showing up in the VMWare server console). The virtual hard drives were available. I connected these to the 2 newly created virtual machines. Both of them connected. I started the virtual machines and they could be started. But the Windows Server Standard 2003 did not have the data on it's D: Drive. The D: Drive is showing all 165 GB of 165 GB free.
Then, being not so experienced, I tried to connect the child hard drive Win2K3Standard-000001.vmdk to the virtual machine. This could not be connected and I got error message. After going thru more posts, I came to the conclusion that the correct virtual drive to connect is Win2K3Standard.vmdk which is the parent drive. This parent drive conencts, but I think the virtual machine is not at all accessing the child drive.
The parent drive is around 7.5 gigs whereas the child drive is more than 70 gigs. And sadly, I do not have a backup, snapshot of the machine. There I got the suspicion that there might be something wrong with the child machine.
Please help me.