Hello everybody;
I am hoping someone can help me, because I have been trying for days to solve this.
I have an Imac (from 2011) with both MacOs and Windows 7 installed on it under Bootcamp.
So I can either boot under MacOs, boot under Windows,
and if I boot under MacOs, I can even start my Windows installation afterwards in a virtual machine under VMWare Fusion.
Recently I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10.
And then the problems started.
Windows 10 became slow, unstable and after some days simply stopped booting.
I tried to reinstall Windows 10 by booting from a DVD, but it never gets past the Windows logo.
I don't know why my Mac cannot boot from a Windows 10 DVD, but well.
So, my second option was to try to boot the Windows 10 installation in a virtual machine under VMWare Fusion,
and let this VM boot from the Windows 10 DVD to reinstall it.
Alas, as I have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10, the Windows installation can no longer boot under VMWare Fusion.
For some reason, VMWare Fusion does not 'recognize' the disk anymore,
and I get an error from VMWare Fusion saying that I need to "Remove the Windows disk from the virtual machine, and then add it again".
Here is my problem:
If you REMOVE a disk under VMWare Fusion, does that mean that the disk will cease to exist? Will I lose everything on it?
Or can you effectively remove and then re-add the same disk again, without losing anything?
I am just afraid of losing that Windows partition, so I don't dare to go further.
I am sorry, but I have no experience whatsoever with VMWare Fusion.
I don't even really understand the relation between Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion...
Many thanks in advance for any input and help!
Carl Philip
Ps.:
Also, I simply cannot find the version of VMWare Fusion which I have...
have searched the net on how to do this under MacOs, but the screen shots are never the same as what I have...
