Thank you for posting about your problem, and especially for the screen shot.
Error code 7B is "Inaccessible boot device" and it means Windows didn't have a driver installed that could access your hard disk from within the VM. Installing that driver (and one for the mouse/keyboard) is what the "Preparing boot camp partition" is trying to do.
It would help us improve the process if you could post two pieces of information that will show us what went wrong, and then I can help you get that driver installed while Windows is running under Apple's boot camp.
The log can be accessed from the Mac: open the Finder to your home folder and navigate to Library\Application Support\VMware Fusion\Virtual Machines\Helper and select "Show Package Contents" for the bundle "naos-1.0.vmwarem". Inside that package is a file vmware.log, and it contains a log of the Preparation process. Could you post that log for me?
The second piece of information that would help is from the Windows registry. Restart your system with Boot Camp and run regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Services | IntelIde, right click that key, and select "Export". This will save the contents of the key into a .reg file which you can post. If you don't have an IntelIde key, that's the reason your system won't start under Fusion, and please let me know if that's the case (the log from the previous step should show this too).
You can install and configure the driver while Windows runs under Boot Camp. To do this, we'll extract the drivers from your driver cache, copy them into the Windows system32 folder, and update the registry so they load on boot. In detail, do this:
1) Step one is to extract the files intelide.sys and i8042prt.sys from \Windows\Driver Cache\i386\sp2.cab. Recent versions of WinZip can open cab files, and this is the easiest method. If you don't have WinZip, open a command prompt, cd to the \Windows\Driver Cache\i386 folder, and use the Microsoft expand program:
c:\Windows\Driver Cache\i386> expand sp2.cab -F:intelide.sys .
c:\Windows\Driver Cache\i386> expand sp2.cab -Fi8042prt.sys .
2) Copy the two files (intelide.sys and i8042prt.sys) into your \Windows\System32 folder.
3) Download the attached 'bootcamp.reg.zip' file which updates the Windows registry to add references to the IDE, mouse, and keyboard required for the virtual hardware.
4) Unzip the attachment, then double click on the 'bootcamp.reg' file.
5) When asked to "Are you sure you want to add the information in C:(path to file) to the registry?", click Yes.
5) If successfully added, the Windows Registry Editor will say "Information in C:(path to file) has been successfully entered into the registry." and click OK.
6) Restart the computer and boot off the Mac partition.
7) Launch VMware Fusion and open your Boot Camp partition virtual machine, which should no longer blue screen or have issues with the keyboard or mouse.
