Guys, this is a weird situation. I have VMWare workstation with a couple of VMs, all sharing a disk, called X for the sake of simplicity. This morning the host went to blue screen death while I was working on VM2. Since the restart, VM2 reports disk X is not a formatted volume and cannot access it. If I pause VM2 and start VM1, VM1 can access it without problems. I've tried to remove X from VM2 and add it again, with the same results. I've restarted both guests multiple times.
Do you have an idea how can I make it work on VM2 again?
A related question is: is it true that you cannot use a SCSI mode shared disk simultaneously by two VMs? I'm pretty sure I could use it this way, but if I launch one of the VMs while the other is running, I get the following error: Cannot open the disk '<path>\Virtual Machines\VMware\Shared Disks\<disk-name>.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. AFAIK, you cannot make a snapshot on a shared disk, and I did not even try to do so.
Maybe the two questions go back to the same issue.
Thanks for your kind answers,
Gusztáv