VMWare Issues with Downgrade from Vista to XP

[XRogue101789]

I just downgraded my Boot Camp Partition from Vista Business to XP Pro SP2, and now my VMWare Fusion doesn't recognize the boot camp partition

This is what it says:Cannot open the disk '/Users/Jay/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm/Boot Camp partition.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: The partition table on the physical disk has changed since the disk was created. Remove the physical disk from the virtual machine, then add it again.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?

 

[Stridder44]

I just downgraded my Boot Camp Partition from Vista Business to XP Pro SP2, and now my VMWare Fusion doesn't recognize the boot camp partition

This is what it says:Cannot open the disk '/Users/Jay/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm/Boot Camp partition.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: The partition table on the physical disk has changed since the disk was created. Remove the physical disk from the virtual machine, then add it again.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?

 

[NeoMayhem]

You are going to need to delete your virtual pc in VMware and re-add it.

 

[Orlok]

and here's how

You are going to need to delete your virtual pc in VMware and re-add it.

Getting VMWare Fusion to Recognize the Change
After the upgrade, VMWare Fusion couldn't start the VM that was based on the physical BootCamp partition, because the partition table was different. It recommended removing and re-adding the disk to the VM config file, but there's an easier way. I simply deleted the VM config file (/Users/[your_user]/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/[your /dev/disk#]/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm), and then let VMWare Fusion rebuild the VM file... That did the trick, and I just hit cancel to avoid re-installing the VMWare tools (since they're already installed).




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