VMWare Workstation 16 - how remove one of several encrypted disks

[kasper]

WS 16 on Win 10 21h1.   Setup a UEFI secure boot access control encrypted disks and TPM for Win 11.    I now want to remove one of the disks but the 'remove' button is greyed out / not available.   How do I reconfigure the guest machine and remove a disk?

Thank you.

[btmp]

As it's called 'Access Control' Encryption my first guess would be that you need to decrypt it. That way it becomes a regular VM again which will allow you to edit or reconfigure it normally.

[kasper]

I sort of tried that and ran into some issue.   I need to try that again with focus.

I am also using TPM so it may be that uncrypting, removing, and then encrypting

flags the TPM setup make it unbootable...

[btmp]

'Access Control' Encryption via Workstation is an outer layer of encryption. Removing that layer, in itself, won't alter the contents (aside from the actual decryption of existing data back to a standard 'unencrypted' format) of the VM. As for removing 'this' disk or 'that' disk or editing this preference etc..I cannot say as I do not know your VMs layout or setup internally. I suppose if you are worried about it or do run into issues you could start by disabling SecureBoot inside the VM before doing the rest. Good Luck!