A new drive letter appeared: . Windows Explorer opened. Empty. Of course—Windows couldn't parse the VMFS layout. But her carving tool, FTK Imager , could.
Since VMFS is a proprietary file system owned by VMware, Windows natively does not support mounting it. There are no built-in tools to read VMFS partitions directly. mount vmfs partition windows
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"Hello, Maya. You've mounted VMFS on Windows. Clever. But this isn't a datastore. It's a honeypot. Say goodbye to your evidence." Of course—Windows couldn't parse the VMFS layout
The tool warned: "This volume contains an unrecognized file system. Mount as RAW?"
If your ESXi host crashes or you need to recover a specific VMDK file from a physical drive, you’ll need to use specialized tools to "bridge the gap" between Windows and VMFS.