VMWare Workstation VM not starting because of locked portion of file

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rod.poli.diniz picture rod.poli.diniz · Mar 8, 2019 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

I am receiving the message:

The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file

Cannot open the disk 'C:\Users\t825665\VM's\VPC\Windows 10 x64.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Module 'Disk' power on failed.

Failed to start the virtual machine.

So the virtual machine is not starting anymore, how to fix that?

Answer

rod.poli.diniz picture rod.poli.diniz · Mar 8, 2019

I just found the solution for this issue. I created a backup and moved the 'lck' files from my VM's directory (*.lck), removing them from the VM's directory. Then just restarted the virtual machine.

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