I am trying to power on a VM that was prepared in VMWare Workstation version 9.x and I have moved it to a Workstation 16 Pro environment.

When I try to start the VM I get the error message "The device "sata" is not supported by the current hwversion". I went into the VM settings and deleted the reference to the SATA device which was a CD-ROM. Even though I don't see any devices labeled "sata" I still can't power on the VM.

Any advice?