


Now let’s see how Hetman Partition Recovery handles this challenge.Īfter searching for lost files, it managed to find a few deleted elements: two files of ten in this folder. Later, we’ll see if it can extract information from recovered virtual disks. It retains disk structure and all virtual machine files, and after the quick scan, it found some of the removed files. With a quick scan, the result is similar.

In the preview mode, the utility can see virtual machine files which remained on the disk. It can see a volume on the VMFS disk, and it can recognize its size and name. So far, it seems to either lack support for VMFS version 6, or it doesn’t support this file system at all.Īnother participant is Disk Internals (VMFS Recovery) –. We’ll put it aside until the final test of recovering data from a virtual machine disk. It looks like this utility only supports recovery operations from virtual disk files. However, it doesn’t recognize the VMFS disk that we have. In fact, though, when the program starts, it asks you to give the path to virtual files. The developer’s official website mentions VMFS support and the ability to recover files from this file system. One more program that claims to support VMFS – Bitrecover (VMFS Recovery Wizard) – In this case, it’s not even worth scanning the it, since the program is not going to find anything. In the end, it says our VMFS partition is identified as unknown. Let’s see how it identifies the disk partitions. These include AnyRecover VMFS Recovery, BitRecover, Disk Internals (VMFS Recovery), Hetman Partition Recovery, ReClaime Pro, and UFS Explorer.Īs you can see, there are not so many tools that support data recovery from VMFS, and what is more, most of them cannot identify this file system on the disk, despite their claims.įor example, AnyRecover VMFS Recovery – – even fails to detect our VMFS disk. For tests, I have selected 6 utilities whose developers claim they can recover data from VMFS.
