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I would start looking a disk recovery software products.<br />
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VMFS Recovery<br />
<a href="http://www.diskinternals.com/vmfs-recovery/" rel="ugc">http://www.diskinternals.com/vmfs-recovery/</a><br />
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We do not use this product anymore.<br />
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UFS Explorer Professional<br />
<a href="http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_pro.php" rel="ugc">http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_pro.php</a><br />
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We've had very good results with the above.<br />
<br />
VMFS Recover<br />
<a href="http://vmfsrecover.com/" rel="ugc">http://vmfsrecover.com/</a><br />
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We've had good results with this product also.
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I would start looking a disk recovery software products.

VMFS Recovery
http://www.diskinternals.com/vmfs-recovery/ [http://www.diskinternals.com/vmfs-recovery/]

We do not use this product anymore.

UFS Explorer Professional
http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_pro.php [http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_pro.php]


We've had very good results with the above.

VMFS Recover
http://vmfsrecover.com/ [http://vmfsrecover.com/]

We've had good results with this product also.

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WIll they allow me to restore an ESXi datastore? or just vmdk files.
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WIll they allow me to restore an ESXi datastore? or just vmdk files.

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Hi,<br />
<br />
I have a server I run at home that uses ESXi 5.1. I had a power outage the other night and when the server came back online the secondary HDD which contains a lot of my labs no longer shows as a datastore. I can see the physical disk and when I select to re-scan it doesn't find it. <br />
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I can see in the CLI that the disk has a partition and I am able to create a new partition (I haven't as I don't want to overwrite). <br />
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How can I recover the partition? <br />
<br />
Cheers<br />
<br />
Mark
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Hi,

I have a server I run at home that uses ESXi 5.1. I had a power outage the other night and when the server came back online the secondary HDD which contains a lot of my labs no longer shows as a datastore. I can see the physical disk and when I select to re-scan it doesn't find it. 

I can see in the CLI that the disk has a partition and I am able to create a new partition (I haven't as I don't want to overwrite). 

How can I recover the partition? 

Cheers

Mark

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