[AccessD] OT: Further to VM weirdness

Hi John:

If you have some disk with spinwrite on it, it might be worth a look but
your drives are probably too large and it would take days just to "attempt"
to fix. Can I assume you have a good UPS attached? If it is only one drive
it could be just a bad drive...more than one is almost guaranteed to be
caused by a power issue in the neighbourhood, like brown outs?

Jim

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Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 5:44 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Further to VM weirdness

That hard disk appears to be mostly empty.  I have other directories on the
drive (with old VMs etc) 
which are still intact but the subdir with the "in use" VMs is just gone.

I downloaded Recuva to see what it thinks is going on on that disk.  It
shows no sign of that subdir 
being "deleted", nor does it show the VM files themselves.  These VM disk
files are large - 60 gigs 
each and there is nothing in the "deleted" stuff that large, nor are there
any matching file names.

Just gone.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 5/29/2012 8:12 AM, jwcolby wrote:
> I came up to my office this am to find three VMs in a critical state,
locked up. I shut them down
> manually and they showed "critical state" in the vm manager. I shut all
the vms down (I run 6
> actively) and rebooted the vm server. When I tried to start the critical
machines, they gave an
> error message "cannot find file". Sure enough the entire directory that
held the virtual machines is
> missing.
>
> Now I am trying to figure out how to look at a missing directory.
>

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