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Metamorphious
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Player does not start up anymore

My VMWare Player was working well since yesterday. When I try to start the Player it don't even react.

I get no error message or something. I noticed that it sometimes write a log. Most times the log has just 19 lines

with no error in it.

Sometimes there are 26 with an error inside: vmplayer| I120: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive0 failed: Unknown error 5 (0x5)

Searching for this error didn't help.

Anyone got a hint what could be wrong?

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tofuchoke
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Hey,

I'm currently facing the same problem with VMware Workstation. I have these lines in my log files.

2014-11-20T09:57:33.494+01:00| vmui| I120: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive0 failed: Unknown error 5 (0x5)

2014-11-20T09:57:33.494+01:00| vmui| I120: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive1 failed: Unknown error 5 (0x5)

However, I do see the vmware process running (vmware.exe), but the GUI isn't launched.

Could someone help ?

Thanks

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