Recover files from a 2008 server VM

[Elliot Torres]

Good day:

I have a Windows 2008 server VM machine that will not finish booting, either stays on caterpillar screen or goes to chkdsk and always says deleting corrupt attribute record (128 "") from file record segment 330321.

sfc scannow also says unable to perform operation.

I can see the files on the disk partition d. I was wondering if there is any way to move those files to a container, to a usb (I attached a USb device and assigned it to the VM, however I cant see it in List Vol) to transfer them from one VM to another through VM Windows linux environment. Given that currently the Proxmox server is giving me an error creating snapshots, I haven't dared tried to revert to a snapshot until I can recover those files.

 

[fortechitsolutions]

Can you temporarily boot your win2008 VM using say "Linux SysRescue LiveCD Iso" as your boot media. Then mount the windows VM Disk using <included NTFS mount tool of your choice on the live CD>
From there you now have a stable environment, ie, SSH / console of the solid booted liveCD
access to windows NTFS VM Disk content

can just tar / extract content / send over to a local NAS:SSH - SCP target etc. whatever is your preference. Just send the data to a storage tank dir on the underlying proxmox host via SSH/SCP. Lots of options.

Once done, unmount the NTFS / clean shut down the VM / and your files are 'out' and accessible.

?

Tim