I'm trying to fix an issue with one of our 15" Macbook Pros running Mountain Lion 10.8.3. The computer has VMware Fusion Professional version 5.0.3 (1040386) installed. There is only one VM on the computer running Windows 7.
The VM was working great (and has been for months) until this morning. While using the VM, Windows crashed and the dreaded "Windows Blue Screen of Death" came up. The VM was frozen, so the employee killed Fusion, then attempted to restart the program. However, when trying to start the VM now, all we get is a message that reads "The file specified is not a virtual disk." Typically this would not be an issue thanks to Time Machine, but the employee had just deleted his external hard drive with the Time Machine backups because it had filled up and he wanted to erase the drive and start over with an empty hard drive this morning (great timing).
There are a couple of very critical files that he needs for tomorrow morning, that are only saved on the destop on with Windows VM that we can no longer access. Any help would be great. I have sent an email to support a few hours ago, but have yet to hear back from anyone yet.
I have attached the file produced from the collected support information. As well as the Windows 7 VM .VMX