Hi there and thank you for the response..  I have been following various posts from across here and reddit and have just been trying to piece everything together.  I assigned the physical disk to the VM yes, but left it on SCSI as that is even marked (recommended) in VMware itself and both in the instructions I followed when someone asked a similar question in the past.  A user on here, "continuum" who also runs a website called sanbarrow.com is someone who I've seen comment on many threads in the past on this subject..  I was hoping maybe he could pop in and make short work of the issue but I am also pleased for any other advice, so thank you!

I'm going to pass on this since I have not been able to figure it out so far and I can't really just sit here and wait anymore, but thanks anyways

In the future this would be a much welcomed feature for VMware , to simplify this a heck of a lot more.