If a restored Hyper-V VM is not starting, try re-importing the virtual machine, re-attach the switch, verify file permissions ...

If you want to recover deleted files from a VMware Datastore, follow one of the methods mentioned below. If you’ve deleted a file from a virtual machine, a snapshot might save you. Think of a snapshot ...

I am not able to figure out what vmkfstools wants for the path. I'm fairly confident that if I could trace what has this file open and rectify it, then I could repeat the process on other problematic ...