I have was running ESXi 5.0 off a Sandisk Cruzer 1GB USB flash drive but the system started acting weird (slow) so I rebooted it, when it came up the server couldn't boot from it so it appears some files on it got corrupted? Before the reboot I was able to use the VMs on that server so the file corruption must not have been that bad. I'm going to reinstall ESXi on another USB stick.
To save me the pain of reconfiguring the networking and virtual hardware in ESXi (I didn't backup those settings), which directory and files would I need to copy over to get those previous settings applied to the reinstall ESXi?
To access those files, do I need to do anything special to mount that old USB drive in Windows or Linux? Will those OSes recognize the file system on it? If not, how do I get access to what's on it? Thanks for any help!