[SOLVED] VM black screen after recover vmx from acronis 11.7
Hi everyone!! This is my first post in the forum so be kind :-).
I am having some problems to recover a system from acronis 11.7. The system runs a old windows 2003 server that acronis logs tell that have some hdd sectors issues. So I tried to recover one right acronis image from 2 weeks.
The problem is when I create the vm in vmware 5.5 then the vm doesnt start and only shows a black screen. I have tried with vmdk directly, with vmware converter standalone with the vmx file and so on.
If someone have tried any different way or now a solution will be nice to hear about.
Note: At this moment I am trying to recover with the acronis program to other net Nas the vmx to later try again with another vm. :S.
Thank you.

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I have tried all possibilities with boot acronis to recover the .tib image, also load the .vmdk directly with no good results... In vmware with the vmdk loaded i realized that if i press F8 appear the boot loader options of the windows server, but no one works and continue with the black screen with no results. I think the image .tib is not fine, but why create acronis the image then? if it knows that is a problem reading sectors...
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Hello Emilio,
I would suggest mounting the image and running chkdsk Disk: /f /r on the mounted disk, after that reattempt recovery. Unfortunately there is no built-in feature, which could check the backup source for bad sectores before taking an image. You can configure automatic validation of the newly created images.
Thank you,
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Hello and thank you for your reply.
I have tried to repair the ntfs system and found many inodes and index broken, but after repair lost correct boot to windows and now need many files corrupt in the system. I think the .vmdk is made with errors and that's why the system doesn't start properly. Anyway i will try to activate validation and try with other servers cause this is not a good option to do backups and later can not recover :S.
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UPDATE: Well, after i fixed the NTFS partition, the system lost many files needed to start the system. I reinstalled with the original Windows CD and the system starts again after that. Probably many files are corrupted too but i wanted to try if its possible to start the server in a virtual machine with vmware.
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