VMware Workstation 6.5.1 - Drive not ready error - Everytime - 5 different computer - 5 different downloads of the installer

[Panarchy]

Hi

It seems that whenever I 'turn on' a virtual machine using VMware Workstation 6.5.1 I get a Drive Not Ready error. Gives me Continue, Ignore and Cancel options I always press continue.

I think it's some memory allocation error.

I've tried it on 4 different computers and with 4 different operating systems. Each computer I tried it on was completely different, custom built computers. Except for one, which is a laptop, to be specific, Dell Inspiron 700m. The others included Windows XP x64 (on computer1), Windows Vista x64 (on computer1), Windows XP (on laptop), Windows XP (on computer2) & Windows Vista (on computer3).

Each time I redownloaded it from the VMware website, so it's definitely not a problem on my end.

One every one of these computers/OS's I am getting an error similiar to this one, featured below, when I 'turn on' a virtual machine;

Please fix this bug in your next release of VMware Workstation.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

[continuum]

I thought this issues was fixed with 6.5.1 ... ?

Anyway - do you have vdk.exe or imdisk.exe running while starting VMs ? - thats a known issue with 6.5.0 ...

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD:

[admin · Accepted solution]

See this thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/105764

[Panarchy]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows\ErrorMode Value in the registry to 2 iso 0.

It worked!

Perhaps this change of registry entries can be changed in the next release of VMware Workstation?

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

[hubbardt]

This error has just started happening to me (Vista 64 SP1 and workstation 6.5.1).

Tried the registry edit and all working now . Thanks !!!

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