ReadyNAS Data Recovery - VMware recovery tool

I have an image that I just built using Debian 5.03 and VM Workstation 7 (thanks for all the postings - very helpful). I built it after getting tired of waiting around for 3 days for L3 tech support to telnet into my Duo - which they never did (it's been offline for over a week trying to work through tech support). Anyway, I just used a SATA-USB hard drive enclosure that I had laying around to house my Drive1 disk. Currently transferring files from that drive to another external USB drive. I will update as to how things go and whether I ran into issues wth files > 4 GB. BTW, the VM does have the VMWare tools installed, so not sure if that is an issue and have not tested it with Player - I have the full version of Workstation.

Update - all files recovered just fine, except the larger ones. It seems that anything over 4Gb would truncate after 1.5Gb copied.
Update 2 - just realized I was copying on to a FAT32 USB disk...let me create a shared folder of the NTFS drive on the host machine.
Update 3 - how sad...didnt make a dfference. Still truncated to 1.5Gb.
Update 4 - tested copying the zipfile to create the VM on my laptop and open the drive = successful. That being said; image is as is - at best I am mediocre with Linux, so don't turn to me for support :). Created a temp ftp site - [removed]. posted single and multipart zip files of VM. Btw, this is on my home Internet connection, so dont look for blazing speeds. I will leave it up for a week or so. VM login info: root/rootadmin, vmuser/vmuser1