VMware fusion preprocessing failed on my Win7 install

[VirtualRain]

I have Windows 7 running on a separate disk on my Mac Pro.

A Bootcamp drive and System Reserved drive mount in OSX.

Fusion fails to preprocess the bootcamp partion... and it fails to start.

Any suggestions on how to get this working?

 

[VirtualRain]

Any suggestions? Has anyone run into this?

 

[MacDawg]

And it boots OK natively into Windows if you restart using the BootCamp drive?

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[VirtualRain]

And it boots OK natively into Windows if you restart using the BootCamp drive?

Woof, Woof - Dawg

Correct. I wonder if it's the fact that when you install Windows 7 on a stand-alone drive, it creates a 100MB "System Reserved" partition (normally hidden I believe) that is used to start the OS, along with the normal partition that is your C drive with the Windows directory etc. Perhaps Fusion is not able to support this partitioning scheme that Win 7 creates?

 

[chrisemersonnc]

Any news/solutions on this?

Any news/solutions on this?

I'm in the same boat! preprocessing fails and Windows always goes to the startup recovery menu when trying to boot via VMWare fusion!