Hey there, I have a vmware server instance running on win2003 server. This has been running forever and a day, but a few days ago the VM hard locked. I hard stopped the VM and gracefully rebooted the host system. The host came back up, but the VM cannot see any partitions/volumes on the VMDK. I downloaded the vmdk dev tools, It passes both "checks", but will not mount (using the windows mount util). I've run chkdsk on the host system, and all is well there, other VM's on the host boot, just not the important one 
. Any thoughts, or advice??? No lock files, .vmdk and -flat.vmdk are there, not split, 40GB disk. I've tried attaching the VMDK to another VM, and it comes up as blank (or windows sees no partitions). I dont' need data per-se off of this, but I it will take me a week or so to get all the resouces together to rebulid (lots of 3rd parties involved). If you need more info, or have ANY advice, I'm all ears.
Thanks much,
Tony Shackelton
IT Consultant
Colorado Hi Tech Solutions.
PS- I'm not vmware super-star but I"ve been using it since the linux only workstation betas, so I'm not a noob either...