There is no administrator to go back to... just me. : )
The broken hard drive I recovered the vmdk from is on its way back to Dell, so I do not have the option of pulling any more files from it.
Is there is any way to recover the drive?
Using VDDK, I also tried to mount and/or repair the drive image, but receive a different error for that: NOT_REACHED d:/build/ob/bora-1042608/bora/lib/disklib/sparseChecker.c:1295 for both the Mount and VDiskManager utilities.
Thanks for the response.