ReadyNAS Data Recovery - VMware recovery tool

marmat78 wrote:

Downloaded and extracted the 1.6GB zip-file. Folder contains files with to me unknown format. Downloaded VM Workstation 7 for Win to install that and try to load the folder content. No luck installing though, setup says I don't have a CPU that supports certain commands (I have Intel Core 2 Duo). What do I have to do in order to get this VMware recovery tool up and running in order to have a go at accessing my crashed Seagate disk?

I'm using an old P4, and running the free VMplayer on WinXP SP3 and it seems to boot up fine. I'd be surprised if your Intel couldn't run it using VMplayer (given that it was created within a virtual environment and should not be hardware dependant). You need to select the vmw.Debian5.vmx file from within the VMplayer app.

Once you get past that look over the instructions provided acmtn as how to login and access your disk, you'll need to run a few terminal commands to get things working (see the first post, and subsequent amendments).

Dek