If a restored Hyper-V VM is not starting, try re-importing the virtual machine, re-attach the switch, verify file permissions ...

If you want to recover deleted files from a VMware Datastore, follow one of the methods mentioned below. If you’ve deleted a file from a virtual machine, a snapshot might save you. Think of a snapshot ...

Running VMWare Workstation on Win10 Pro. Have an VM on a SSD (the VM is OSX but that doesn't matter here.) Have a 4 TB physical HDD with 3 partitions: HFS+ for apple, AFPS for apple, NTFS for Win10.