Made boot camp partition bigger, now VMware fusion doesn't work

[thesmoth]

It says that the drive has changed and I have to unmount and then remount it, but i don't really know how to do that and it doesn't seem to work

 

[MacDawg]

This is kinda a nasty process but this is what I had to do to make it work

You have to go to this path and delete a folder...

/Users/<your user name>/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp

Delete that Boot Camp folder... that is the trick to getting Fusion to read your new partition

Once you delete that folder... boot into Boot Camp natively... then boot back to OSX... and then run Fusion

It will initialize your Boot Camp partition and read it now

Let me know if that works!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[getz76]

This is kinda a nasty process but this is what I had to do to make it work

You have to go to this path and delete a folder...

/Users/<your user name>/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp

Delete that Boot Camp folder... that is the trick to getting Fusion to read your new partition

Once you delete that folder... boot into Boot Camp natively... then boot back to OSX... and then run Fusion

It will initialize your Boot Camp partition and read it now

Let me know if that works!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

Worked for me. I just tested it by causing the issue (resized partition) and following your steps. Nice tip.

 

[oregon2]

how do you resize the partition? I've been wanting to do this because I made my windows partition way too small...

 

[MacDawg]

how do you resize the partition? I've been wanting to do this because I made my windows partition way too small...

I believe that some have used a 3rd party utility with some success, however, the standard recommended way is to use WinClone (free) to clone your Windows partition, then use Boot Camp Assistant to delete the partition and then run BC Assistant again to create a larger partition and restore your clone to it.

Recap:

1. Clone your existing partition using WinClone
2. Delete your existing partition with BC Assistant
3. Create a larger partition with BC Assistant
4. Restore your clone

Woof, Woof - Dawg