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So I opened the hex editor and I am a little lost! I can't see the elements you say to edit.

The status line (bottom left) tells you the current offset. Try moving the cursor around. I can't make it any simpler I'm afraid.

ps. I see that this disk is a CloneVDI clone. Whyever did you elect to use a VBoxManage command line to resize the disk when you had access to CloneVDI?

Because the Clone was done using my work's windows PC and the resize was done on my mac at home.

So, just to confirm

Hex 170 = 00
Hex 171 = 00
Hex 172 = 00
Hex 173 = 00
Hex 174 = 05
Hex 175 = 00
Hex 176 = 00
Hex 177 = 00

Correct, but I'll warn you now: I tend to get quite tetchy when asked to restate a point I think I made quite clearly at the first attempt!

If you have the backup I warned you to make then there's no need to be this nervous: get on with it!

ps. CloneVDI can be used on a Mac host if you install Wine / Winebottler. Details in the CloneVDI discussion thread, no doubt you can find it in google.

Sadly this did not work

Result Code:
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:
Medium
Interface:
IMedium {53f9cc0c-e0fd-40a5-a404-a7a5272082cd}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {c28be65f-1a8f-43b4-81f1-eb60cb516e66}

Hmm. The hex editor method should have been quite straightforward: I'm not sure what could have messed it up, other than failing to use the "Open Partially" feature. What you could do is open the first 10000 bytes again using "Open Partially", then "Save as" something.bin, and post the zipped bin here - that way I can check your work.

If you really can't get this fix to work then its back to one of the earlier suggestions I'm afraid.

Definitely partially open, the screenshot shows that.

I'll definitely give the other options a try. Thanks!

Just wondering but you said that you cloned this off your work machine. Can't you just get another clone?

omro wrote:Definitely partially open, the screenshot shows that

Does it? Is that what the 'P' stands for? I've never noticed that before!

Perryg wrote:Just wondering but you said that you cloned this off your work machine. Can't you just get another clone?

Don't have access to this machine for a while

OK,

So I created a new Linux Mint VM and attached the damaged VDI as a drive and when I boot into Mint, this shows up and I can access it.

When I tried dding, it fails.

ok, I fixed that by unmounting the drive and going via /dev/sdb1 instead

Is the img file the raw file mentioned earlier?

Yes, img file, raw file, is the same thing. At least in this context. Just be aware that the trick of turning a partition image into a disk image is AFAIK unique to CloneVDI. E.g. if you try it with VBoxManage it will seem to work but the result will be garbage (boot tracks missing, and nor can you fix them because no space was allocated for them).

Still waiting for the image file to be created, so will update when it's created.