VMware “Cannot open the disk ‘XXXXXX.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.”

VMware “Cannot open the disk ‘XXXXXX.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.”


Open the *.vmx file in a text editor and find the line that refers to the old snapshot file, which will look something like:
scsi0:0.fileName = “XXXXXX-000002.vmdk”
or
ide0:0.fileName = “XXXXXX-000002.vmdk”
Change the value to the filename of XXXXXX-000002.vmdk file (which happens to be the same as the name of the VM).

For example.

Change *.vmx content

csi0:0.fileName =“XXXXXX-000003.vmdk”

Change filename of XXXXXX-000002.vmdk to XXXXXX-000003.vmdk