AngusM wrote:I had 3 snapshots and I was trying to delete the 2nd one when it all collapsed on me.
Yeah, you're done. I don't think that you can recover anything from what you have, it's a bunch of garbage. As I said from the beginning:
socratis wrote:Restoring from a backup would be the safest choice at this point.
AngusM wrote:I'd at least like to be able to access the files.
You can pretty much forget about it. A differential image contains changed
sectors of the (virtual) hard disk, not changes in the files. If you can't recreate your (virtual) hard drive, you're out of luck. See a
draft of the
Snapshot basics to understand how the whole thing works.
What I
*think* might have happened... Here are the series of snapshots:
{de7c2487-8061-4637-a96e-378228b1d5a2}.vdi XP_old_c_drive.vdi
{02c3c883-b19e-4fab-900d-e0be9b7744e5}.vdi GONE!
{d2b4530e-7ef3-40b4-9a6f-665c29568119}.vdi Orphaned vdi
{88281da0-61fb-4152-a291-d07edae13aba}.vdi XP_main.vdi
{02c3c883-b19e-4fab-900d-e0be9b7744e5}.vdi GONE!
{d2b4530e-7ef3-40b4-9a6f-665c29568119}.vdi Orphaned vdi
With the two intermediate snapshots gone, the latest snapshots are useless. Your data can go as back as
2015-08-03.
Oh, BTW, there's an "XP.vdi" file, which I don't know what it's supposed to do there, it's not referenced from anything. My gut feeling, and based on the dates, that was another VDI that got a snapshot on 2011-12-03, with that snapshot being "{7e39c27c-8983-41b0-849e-8ff536d9d428}.vdi". You could send me the "showmediuminfo" output for both of these VDIs, but given their modification dates I doubt that you'll have anything of use in there since 2011-12-03.
Finally, I don't really like the story so far. If there was something going wrong with the snapshot delete/merge functionality, you would
NOT have lost
BOTH files. Something's fishy here...