Copying VMDK to VDI in VirtualBox. VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other ...

Programmatically, I'm not sure. But in Windows you can associate a drive letter to a disk number, then out in VMware you can associate a disk number to a VMDK filename.

The base Linux system ext3 filesystem appears to have corrupted the VMware vmdk files, as well as irreparably damaged the OS's filesystem and system files.