Cant boot after removing usb windows isntalator

[T15K6]

hello, installed windows 7 x64 with USB with (Use a Physical Disk option)  after that i want make snapshot but button is unclickable Gray color after this i remove that USB from wmvare settings and now i can make snapshot but after restarting or shutdown i cant boot in wvmare windows

[scott28tt]

@T15K6 

Moderator: Please state which VMware product you are using.

[T15K6]

@scott28tt

VMware Workstation 15 Pro

[scott28tt]

@T15K6 

Moderator: Moved to Workstation Pro Discussions

[T15K6]

Thanks

[Keebller]

If the computer boots into Ubuntu automatically without showing the GRUB menu at all, sometimes you can press the manufacturer's BIOS/UEFI key at boot time and while in UEFI or BIOS mode from the firmware menus select the operating system you need. Common keys used are Esc, Delete, F1, F2, F10, F11, or F12. On tablets, common buttons are Volume up or Volume down.

JCPenney Kiosk

[T15K6]

here is not ubuntu i install windows 7 x64 on vmware workstation pro with USB physical drive after removing USB physical drive windows cant boot with his virtual HDD

[continuum]

Please be more precise: if you installed a Windows VM into a "physical disk" and then remove that device - the VM will obviosly fail to boot !
Anyway - have you tried to fix the bootorder in the virtual BIOS / EFI ?

[T15K6]

@continuum

hey no i use physical USB flash drive when installing Windows 7 x64 on VMware workstation after install i want make snapshot to save clean windows but button is unclickable "gray color" and one way is to fix this remove USB flash drive with windows installation from settings.
When i remove this and restard windows can't boot

[T15K6]

[continuum]

Have you adjusted bootorder ?

Ulli

[T15K6]

@continuum

do you mean from bios?  Yes

[continuum]

... and ?
What exactly do you mean with "VM does not boot" ?

Ulli

[T15K6]

@continuum

Windows not boot

[continuum]

🤣😁that was funny.

Here is another joke.
Doctor: How can I help you ? - whats wrong ?
Patient: I am ill
Doctor: Can you tell me where the pain is ? - headache. belly, heart, teeth .. ?
Patient: Me ill
Doctor: Next one please

Windows not boot ?

Can you at least tell us the color of the screen when that happens ?
No screen, VMware-logo-screen, , Bluescreen , black with blinking cursor , .... ?

This is an important detail for troubleshooting and "doesn't work" simply is not good enough.


Ulli

[T15K6]

@continuum  i just cant boot in windows after i remove USB flash drive with which I installed windows 7 on VMware

[continuum]

you try to boot from network

switch to boot from scsi0:0 instead

[T15K6]

@continuum 

[scott28tt]

@T15K6 

Did you install Windows to the USB disk which you have now removed from the VM? That would result in the behaviour you are experiencing where the 60GB virtual disk which remains as part of the VM is blank.

[T15K6]

no i install windows on virtual 60GB HDD