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The USB flash drive with ESXi got corrupt and not bootable. What can I do?

The host has a DAS storage loaded with two VMs. The USB flash drive installed with ESXi 6.0 suddenly got corrupt and is not able to boot. I don't have a duplicate one. What can I do? Can I plug in a new USB flash drive and re-install the ESXi 6.0 on it, and hope it will boot up and see the two original VMs?
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Castlewood

8/22/2022 - Mon
arnold

The plain answer what other optio do you have but to recreate a bootable USB?
Make sure you do not tough the das storage while making sure drivers if any needed to access the data from das are included as well as drive the server are included.

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Thank rauenpc for detailed direction. Without it, I wasn't able to get it to work.
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