I'm running VMWare Workstation 9.0.2 build-1031769.
I had a Windows Server 2012 VM installed and working for quite some time now. Just a few min ago I closed the VM and chose to suspend, which is what I almost always do when I close it. Everything seemed ok when it closed.
Now when I open VMWare, though, it doesn't show up in my tabs like it usually did. If I do File -> Open and browse to the folder where I have this VM it doesn't see an actual VM for me to open. If I browse to this directory with Windows Explorer all I see are 2 files in there now:
Windows Server 2012.vmdk
Windows Server 2012-flat.vmdk
All the other files that are typically there (and are still in my other VM's) are gone. No clue how/why that happened.
The Windows Server 2012-flat.vmdk is 62GB so I'm pretty sure that's the virtual drive that was used on the VM. If I try to re-install Windows Server 2012 to this same directory VMWare tells me that a VM already exists here, so it's seeing that drive, but warns me that continuing could cause data loss.
I was hoping I could just re-install Windows using the existing virtual drive and it would run as a repair install so I'd be back to normal. I'm afraid to do that, though, without asking about it here first.
Any information on how/why this happened, and more importantly, how I can get this fixed would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!