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I can't seem to find the virtual disks from my virtual machine. I've looked in program files, and application data... Where do they get stored by default? I don't think I put them any place special, but I have to back them up now. I am reading my windows hard drive from a linux live CD, so I can't just start VMWare and ask it.

Hennes
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Carson Myers
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For XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\Virtual Machines

For Vista and later:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Virtual Machines

Mathieu K.
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On macOS, it's ~/Virtual Machines.

(Note: Unlike on Windows as described by the other answer, VMWare on macOS does not put this folder in the Documents folder.)

Each Virtual Machine is a .vmwarevm bundle. Right-click on it and choose “Show Package Contents”. The hard drive image is inside, possibly divided into multiple files.

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