I copied one of my Windows XP virtual machine running on a VMWare Server 1.02 system locally to my workstation. After the files were copied I opened the vmx file with VMWare Workstation 6 and received the following error below after trying to start the virtual machine. The virrtual machine contained one snapshot on the VMWare Server.
Locate the virtual machine in Windows Explorer and delete any .lck folders
Start the virtual machine. If boot process will fail, try to Map the virtual hard disk to Z:\ for example.
I then disconnect the virtual hard disk and tried again. The virtual machine boot without any problem and my snapshot was still valid. Deleting the .lck folder saved me a lot of work.
johnkmx
Perfect. Thanks for sharing.
futureOpen
thanks….it worked
Aswin
Thank u so much it worked !!!!
dani
thanks
Rob
I am not a vmware techie and know enough to be dangerous…have the lock file situation and understand the fix but do no know how to get to the folders\files on the vm to delete them. Any help greatly appreciated.
Ismael
Thanks, saved my bacon. Otherwise I would have to rebuild the vm’s.
Sangy
Thanks…!! it works..but I could not understand why it was happened ?
leo
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Sumanth
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Oscar GF
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Ali Abooali
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Sam
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alban YANDZI
thanks for your help my server is working now.
Maher
if it doesn’t work rename the disk
bangjon
okay it’s work. with only remove .lck folder. thanks brother
rama\
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Pagesofjoy
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NiceGuy
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Sandro
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Sean Taylor
Thank you very much. I have just deleted the .lck folders and I could power on my Virtual Machine. Do you know why this situation could happened?
Duncan
Thank you very well written guide solved the problem in seconds (my computer had crashed whilst the VM was running).
Gerhard
Saved my day! Thanks
darkskull
YEAH!!! Work fine!!! Thanks
alex
I have deleted the .lck folder and now it still would not work it shows another error (Cannot open the disk ‘..-..’) Reason: The specified virtual disk needs repair. and when i restore those folders back it shows me the first error message ( Failed to lock the file.)
and it doesn’t let me to change the drive Letter i believe due to the error
haris
thanks
Sandeep
it worked. thanks.
Bogdan
It solved my problem.
Thank you!
Subu
Nice, worked just as normal. Thanks
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Worked. Thanks.
fahad
thanks a lot
Srinivas
Thank you so much , It worked for me.
andre
Thanks your a life saver.
Alin
THANX!!!
I’m a newbie in VMware but that think worked smooth !
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I’d like to thnk you lot, my server it work now.
So good
dfxmaster
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ES
Thanks. It worked for me! ๐
ES
What happened was that my PC was abruptly shut down because of a power surge, so the VMware didn’t have time to unlock the file.
And by deleting those files, the VMware will automatically create new ones to supress the old deleted ones.
Everything should be OK like old files and configurations you had prior to the incident.
sutasu
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sutasu
* it works
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eData
Saved my days. Thanks a lot.
Yusuf
thanks a lot
punchiri
Thanks it works…
very helpful
maykon
tks.
passer
Thhank you very much,
I hardly uninstall vmware workstation!~
masud
it works dude as said,
thanks a lot
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it worked! thx a lot!
Amit
Tahnk you So much Awasome!!!!!!
terence
Thanks, thanks, thanks very much; I cloned my 120gb drive to 250 on SUSE and after, i thought i lost my CCNA stuff, I followed you recommendation and i am back in business, thanks again.
raj
Thanks a lot.. it worked