A restored VM may not start or its file system(s) may not be accessible
A restored VM may not boot up or its file system(s) may not be accessible in the following case:
The VM's guest operating system is Windows 8,
The VM is restored from a block-level incremental backup image,
And the restore uses the hotadd transport mode.
As a result of a VMware issue in VDDK 5.5.x, the Windows NTFS Primary File Table on the restored VM may be corrupted. As a workaround, use a different transport mode to restore the VM (not hotadd).