Can you confirm that VMware Workstation, or at lease the VM's tab was closed and re-opened after replacing the file? Some data is cached, and needs to be re-read after manual modifications.

Anyway, as a workaround you may delete the  "scsi0:1" lines from the VM's .vmx file. Again, with the VM's tab closed!

scsi0:1.fileName = "Windows 10 x64-0.vmdk"
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.redo = ""

André