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These tools function by ignoring the "official" partition table and filesystem pointers. Instead, they scan for file signatures (like .vmdk headers) and attempt to piece the files back together based on the remaining metadata fragments. Then, the screen changed

If your datastore is missing because of a signature mismatch (common after a SAN restore or hardware change), you can attempt to force-mount it via the ESXi command line. you can reconstruct the table.

If the partition table was deleted but the data was not overwritten, you can reconstruct the table.