Okay, So I found this out the hard way!
I have VMware ESXi 5.0.0 Release Build 469512
I had a seperate 250gb drive in my host server with windows and documents on it that I wanted to be able to access from my VM. I mounted it without knowing it was going to wipe my FILE SYSTEM and turn it into a DATASTORE drive with VMFS as the file system.
Now I need to revover my drive back to FAT32 or NTFS (I don't remember what it was before). I found one software that recovers VMFS back to either FAT32 or NTFS. It's called "Disk Internals VMFS Recovery 1.5" I only used the trial version 2 seperate times with limited results for what I'm looking for. I'm mainly looking for recovering my documents and settings folder but the more the better.
What do you all reccomend for me to do?
Any best software reccomendations or options for me?
So far I have searched these fourms and all over google and came up that im either screwed or that I need to find a software program that will restore or rebuild my FILE SYSTEM back to its origional state.
The one that looks the best so far is called:
EASIS Data Recovery 4.4
Any experience?
Thank you for you time in reading this and please help if you can in any way
Thanks,
Jeremy