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File not found: Boot Camp partition.vmdk

Help! I recently replaced the HD in my MacBook Pro, then cloned back the OSX partition, recreated the Boot Camp partition and restored from a Winclone image. Booting directly into Boot Camp works fine. However. from Fusion 2.0.1 I see the Boot Camp partition (powered off), but when I start it I get the msg: File not found: Boot Camp partition.vmdk. Is this file supposed to be in the OSX or the Boot camp partition? Searchlight finds nothing in the OSX partition. What should I do?

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Note: These steps assume you have a Apple Default install of Windows and a Default VMware Fusion Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine and if you have modified the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine to add additional Hard Drives either Virtual or RAW Disk then do not use these directions unless you backup the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine Package first.

1. If Fusion is open then close it.

2. In a Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) copy and paste the following command, as is, and then press Enter and it will remove the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine meta data. Note: This does not effect the Boot Camp partition install of Windows. Also be sure you copy the entire command line below from "rm" at the beginning to the " (quote) after the p in Camp. Smiley Happy

rm -dfr "/Users/$/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp"

3. Start Fusion (/Applications/VMware Fusion.app) and select Boot Camp partition on the Virtual Machine Library window and then click the Run button.

Notes: Next, an Authenticate dialog box appears. "VMware Fusion requires that you type your password." Enter your Name and Password then click OK. (This is necessary to unmount the Boot Camp partition for Fusion to have direct access to it.)

Next, one should see a Boot Camp partition message stating "VMware Fusion is preparing your Boot Camp partition to run as a virtual machine. This may take a few minutes. This will happen once."

When the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine boots for the first time after this VMware Tools may want to or will install/update and reboot the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine.

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Note: These steps assume you have a Apple Default install of Windows and a Default VMware Fusion Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine and if you have modified the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine to add additional Hard Drives either Virtual or RAW Disk then do not use these directions unless you backup the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine Package first.

1. If Fusion is open then close it.

2. In a Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) copy and paste the following command, as is, and then press Enter and it will remove the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine meta data. Note: This does not effect the Boot Camp partition install of Windows. Also be sure you copy the entire command line below from "rm" at the beginning to the " (quote) after the p in Camp. Smiley Happy

rm -dfr "/Users/$/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp"

3. Start Fusion (/Applications/VMware Fusion.app) and select Boot Camp partition on the Virtual Machine Library window and then click the Run button.

Notes: Next, an Authenticate dialog box appears. "VMware Fusion requires that you type your password." Enter your Name and Password then click OK. (This is necessary to unmount the Boot Camp partition for Fusion to have direct access to it.)

Next, one should see a Boot Camp partition message stating "VMware Fusion is preparing your Boot Camp partition to run as a virtual machine. This may take a few minutes. This will happen once."

When the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine boots for the first time after this VMware Tools may want to or will install/update and reboot the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine.

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Thanks, WoodyZ, for your speedy reply. Following your 1-2-3 steps, I got Fusion back up and running in a couple of minutes.

Is there a non-super technical explaination of what got broke when I redid things as described in my original post? I'm curious.

And if this is not an uncommon occurrence, perhaps it should be referenced in menubar help. I looked there first.

Not a real glitch, but on starting up the boot camp partition I saw "VMware Tools is not installed. Choose the Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools menu." In fact, there was no such menu item, rather VMware Tools installs itself automatically.

Final note: Fusion is recommending I install McAfee VirusScan Plus. But I did that before.

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Is there a non-super technical explaination of what got broke when I redid things as described in my original post? I'm curious.

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And if this is not an uncommon occurrence, perhaps it should be referenced in menubar help. I looked there first.

There probably is a good non technical explanation but I'm not good with non technical explanations, sorry. Smiley Happy

This is not an uncommon thing and why VMware has failed to include this in the VMware Fusion Help File doesn't surprise me because that are many things that should be in there and aren't.

Not a real glitch, but on starting up the boot camp partition I saw "VMware Tools is not installed. Choose the Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools menu." In fact, there was no such menu item, rather VMware Tools installs itself automatically.

Final note: Fusion is recommending I install McAfee VirusScan Plus. But I did that before.

There are explanation for these things as well however if you've already installed them then just ignore it.

If your really curious all of this has been discussed many times before so a search of the forum should yield some results.