Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Watch how to recover data from a non-working or damaged VMware Fusion virtual machine on macOS. What to do if your VM won’t start but contains important files. In this video, we will go through in detail how to solve this issue and how to extract data from the virtual disk file of a non-working virtual machine.
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📚 Content:
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Why access to data is lost
01:13 - Where to find the virtual machine files
02:47 - How to retrieve data from a .vmdk file
07:17 - Recovery with Time Machine
08:28 - Recovery with snapshots in VMWare Fusion
09:21 - How to recover a deleted virtual disk file
11:39 - Mounting a VMDK disk directly in macOS
13:27 - How to avoid loss of data and prevent virtual machine failure/breakdown
👉 Terminal commands:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install qemu.
qemu-img convert -O raw "Virtual Disk.vmdk" "Virtual Disk.img"
hdiutil attach "Virtual Disk.img"
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Watch how to recover data from a non-working or damaged VMware Fusion virtual machine on macOS. What to do if your VM won’t start but contains important files. In this video, we will go through in detail how to solve this issue and how to extract data from the virtual disk file of a non-working virtual machine.
❗️❗️❗️ SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN ARMY, YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE “Come back alive” FOUNDATION ❗️❗️❗️ https://savelife.in.ua/donate/
👉 Hetman Partition Recovery – hetmanrecovery.com/hard-drive-data-recovery-software
👉 VMware Fusion Doesn’t Work — How to Recover Virtual Machine Data In macOS - hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/vmware-fusion-not-working-how-to-recover-virtual-machine-data-on-macos.htm
📚 Content:
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Why access to data is lost
01:13 - Where to find the virtual machine files
02:47 - How to retrieve data from a .vmdk file
07:17 - Recovery with Time Machine
08:28 - Recovery with snapshots in VMWare Fusion
09:21 - How to recover a deleted virtual disk file
11:39 - Mounting a VMDK disk directly in macOS
13:27 - How to avoid loss of data and prevent virtual machine failure/breakdown
👉 Terminal commands:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install qemu.
qemu-img convert -O raw "Virtual Disk.vmdk" "Virtual Disk.img"
hdiutil attach "Virtual Disk.img"
🍏How To Recover Data From MacOS (APFS, HFS/HFS+, 4Kn drives, etc.) MacOS Backup. - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfvrWYvsWiLYieq1nY3RB7032fsVl3-W
👉 Support the project:
Become a sponsor of this channel - youtube.com/channel/UCu-D9QnPsAPn7AtxL4HXLUg/join
Patreon - patreon.com/hetmansoftwaredatarecovery
Other videos: #VMWareFusion #DataRecoveryMac #MacOSVMRepair #VirtualMachineRecovery #VMWareTroubleshooting #MacTechGuide #VMWareFusionHelp #RecoverLostData #MacOSSupport #BrokenVMFix
