Help needed to recover corrupt virtual disk - No snapshots

Hi
Please could somebody help me.
I was running Clean Up Virtual Machine and then I Force Quit Fusion. Now I can't start my VM. I have run vmware_vdiskmanager to try and recover the virtual disk, but I get the following error.
VixDiskLib: Invalid configuration file parameter. Failed to read configuration file.
The virtual disk, '/Users/juan-emil/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Virtual Disk.vmdk', is corrupted and cannot be repaired.
In an attempt to solve the problem I created snapshots to see if I can recover from them, but all I did was to un-associate my fusion with the virtual disk.
What do I do. Please somebody help. I cannot afford to loss this VM. All my work is on it.

If even vmware-vdiskmanager cannot repair the .vmdk file anymore, then I'm afraid that you may need to revert to your latest backup. What may be worth a try though is to see whether another start of the clean process will work!?
Other than the above, you can try to contact continuum, who may have further ideas.
André

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