VMWare Fusion - How To Get It Back Working?

[kevhui]

I originally have a FAT32 Boot Camp Windows XP and I ran VMWare Fusion without a problem.

Yesterday I reformatted and re-installed the Boot Camp with NTFS Window XP (because I want to use Winclone). But when I run Fusion again, an error saying something like "Format of the destination hard disk changed, remove it and re-add a new hard disk".

I tried using Setting and removed the Hard Disk, then re-add a hard disk using the default options, but Fusion runs with an error "no bootable device".

I also tried uninstall (by moving the Fusion to the Trash" and re-installed, but the same error persisted.

Anyone please advise steps to get the Fusion back working?

 

[Nemesis90]

I have this same problem too. Had FAT32 working fine, upgraded to a larger HD, restored a Carbon Copy Clone, created an NTFS Boot Camp volume... and nothing worked.

It seems the solution to a similar problem here in the forums would work:

found solution
I have this problem also and its seems like there are a bunch of others with it as well

I'm no computer genius but i think these other guys are and they found the solution to this.
http://communities.vmware.com/message/803666#803666

The solution is typed out in 5 steps in the second to last post. There is one change made to the commands in the first two lines of the post below that
I haven't tried it as of yet because I can't remember any of the unix commands to get around.

I think what they are basically doing is creating a Virtual machine and then tricking the Fusion in thinking this Virtual machines location is the boot camp partition. Thus it knows where it is.

I'm a total Unix n00b, however, and I can't even get past changing the directory to the vm package. Can anyone translate the commands to something idiot-proof?

 

[alphaod]

Delete the file in Documents --> Virtual Machines labeled something like "Boot Camp"

 

[Nemesis90]

Fixed it

Well, there wasn't any Boot Camp VM in the Documents/Virtual Machines folder, but I did find one in user/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines.

I got rid of the Boot Camp folder from there and restarted Fusion. Selected Boot Camp (it's automatically detected) and it started. I will say that for the first 3-4 starts windows crashed with a blue screen (even with Safe Mode), but then it started working fine.

So far, so good.