{"id":1711,"date":"2017-12-20T08:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2019-08-30T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:27:00","slug":"how-to-recover-data-from-broken-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/how-to-recover-data-from-broken-vm.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Recover Data from Broken VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your VM is broken to boot somehow, I suggest you try to export this VM and then import it again.<\/p>\n<p>However, if unfortunately it still fails, here is the final recovery method you can take a shot.<\/p>\n<p>1. You need to download <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/08\/memuhyperv-tool\/\">MEmuHyperv<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>tool first. There are two versions, 32-bit and 64-bit, which depends on your Operation System. If you have no idea which is suitable, Click Control Panel&gt; System and Security &gt; System and check it out.<\/p>\n<p>2. Download and extract MEmuHyperv files into&nbsp;MEmuHyperv&nbsp;directory, which depends on your MEmu installation path.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1714\" style=\"width: 661px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1714\" class=\"wp-image-1714 size-full\" title=\"Exported Files\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u538b\u7f29\u6587\u4ef6.jpg\" alt=\"Exported Files\" width=\"651\" height=\"121\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-1714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hyperv.png\" alt=\"hyperv\" width=\"677\" height=\"252\"><\/p><\/div>\n<p>3. Run MemuHyperv.exe as Admin. Please make sure all MEmu processes are closed in Task Manager. Let&#8217;s take an example. <strong>MEmu_1 is broken and MEmu_2 is good<\/strong>. We will guide you how to recover your data in MEmu_1 and attach to MEmu_2. In the MEmu Manager,&nbsp;&nbsp;every instance(VM) have three partitions:&nbsp;<strong>Primary&nbsp;Master<\/strong> is system volume, <strong>Primary Slave<\/strong>&nbsp;is data volume, <strong>Secondary Master<\/strong> is SD Card. (Remember the file name, but don&#8217;t get mislead by disk1, disk2 and disk3, sometimes it&#8217;s randomly ordered).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1719\" title=\"MEmuHyperv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/memu-manager_\u526f\u672c-1.jpg\" alt=\"MEmuHyperv\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Choose MEmu_1(<strong>Broken<\/strong>), Click Settings &gt; Storage, Choose&nbsp;<strong>Primary Slave Storage <\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>right click, Remove Attachment and Click OK. Then we will see it removed<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1725 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/step1.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 1\" width=\"763\" height=\"563\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1726\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step2.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/step3.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\"><\/p>\n<p>5. Repeat the same operation&nbsp;to MEmu_2(<strong>Good<\/strong>). Remove Attachment <strong>Primary Slave Storage <\/strong>from MEmu_2.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/setp4.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 4\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\"><\/p>\n<p>6. Click <strong>File<\/strong> and&nbsp;Enter into&nbsp;<strong>Virtual Media Manager<\/strong>,&nbsp;find <strong>Primary Slave Storage&nbsp;<\/strong>VMfiles<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>of MEmu_1 and MEmu_2, which are both not attached, then remove&nbsp;but keep the two files (<strong>NOT delete<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1729 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step5.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 5\" width=\"902\" height=\"594\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step6-3.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 6\" width=\"938\" height=\"615\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1734\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1734\" class=\"wp-image-1734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step7.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 7\" width=\"931\" height=\"619\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-1734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1735 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step-8.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 8\" width=\"936\" height=\"608\"><\/p><\/div>\n<p>7. Find the directory of MEmu_1 and MEmu_2, which depends on your installation path. Copy the <strong>Primary Slave Storage&nbsp;<\/strong>VMfile from MEmu_1 to MEmu_2 folder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hyper1.png\" alt=\"hyper1\" width=\"673\" height=\"224\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hyperv2.png\" alt=\"hyperv2\" width=\"329\" height=\"113\"><\/p>\n<p>8.&nbsp;Enter into&nbsp;MEmu_2(<strong>Good<\/strong>) Settings and Choose Storage. Click the circled button to add Hard Disk, then Click choose existing disk, find the MEmu_1(<strong>Broken<\/strong>) directory, choose the <strong>Primary Slave Storage <\/strong>vmdk file (your original data volume)&nbsp;to add.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1741\" style=\"width: 949px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"wp-image-1741 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step-11.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 9\" width=\"939\" height=\"617\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1742 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step-12.jpg\" alt=\"Pic 10\" width=\"940\" height=\"616\"><\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step-13-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pic11\" width=\"941\" height=\"624\"><\/p>\n<p>9. Now you have inserted your data volume into a good\/new VM. Suggest you do the same thing to the <strong>Secondary Master Storage<\/strong> (SD Card Volume) if you have data on it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step-16.jpg\" alt=\"Step 16\" width=\"1059\" height=\"605\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Step15.jpg\" alt=\"Step15\" width=\"1055\" height=\"604\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&gt;&gt; Back to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/16\/memu-101\/\">MEmu 101<\/a><\/strong>, everything you need to know about MEmu &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official Website:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.memuplay.com<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Online Support:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/memuplayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/memuplayer<br \/>\n<\/a><strong>User Group:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/memuplayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/memuplayer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your VM is broken to boot somehow, I suggest you try to export this VM and then import it again. However, if unfortunately it still fails, here is the final recovery method you can take a shot. 1. You need to download MEmuHyperv&nbsp;tool first. There are two versions, 32-bit and 64-bit, which depends on your Operation System. If you have no idea which is suitable, Click Control Panel&gt; System and Security &gt; System and check it out. 2. Download and extract MEmuHyperv files into&nbsp;MEmuHyperv&nbsp;directory, which depends on your MEmu installation path. 3. Run MemuHyperv.exe as Admin. Please make sure all MEmu processes are closed in Task Manager. Let&#8217;s take an example. MEmu_1 is broken and MEmu_2 is good. We will guide you how to recover your data in MEmu_1 and attach to MEmu_2. In the MEmu Manager,&nbsp;&nbsp;every instance(VM) have three partitions:&nbsp;Primary&nbsp;Master is system volume, Primary Slave&nbsp;is data volume, Secondary Master is SD Card. (Remember the file name, but don&#8217;t get mislead by disk1, disk2 and disk3, sometimes it&#8217;s randomly ordered). &nbsp; 4.&nbsp;Choose MEmu_1(Broken), Click Settings &gt; Storage, Choose&nbsp;Primary Slave Storage and&nbsp;right click, Remove Attachment and Click OK. Then we will see it removed 5. Repeat the same operation&nbsp;to MEmu_2(Good).<a class=\"show-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/how-to-recover-data-from-broken-vm.html\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,130,206,19,18,20,22,113,4802,238,236,237],"yst_prominent_words":[1021,1014,666,983,1001,503,1011,985,990,1006,1008,976,973,987,994,996,1016,980,1003,1018],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memu-faq","tag-android","tag-android-5-1","tag-android-5-1-1","tag-android-emulator","tag-android-game","tag-app-player","tag-bluestacks","tag-for-pc","tag-lang-en","tag-memu-backup","tag-memu-data","tag-memu-instance-broken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}