Problems accessing physical HDD from VM

Ok folks, I have Workstation 7.1.1 and need to be able to access my physical HDD from a guest OS. The physical OS is Win 7 64-bit and the guest OS is 2008 R2. When I go in to add a new HD to the guest, it let me add it but just after POST, the VM throws me the error you can see in the attachment. And then I have to kill the vmware.exe process in Task Manager since it just locks up.
Do I need to grant some kind of access to the guest OS?
1. I am running Workstation as an administrator.
2. I have tried Bridged/Host-only/NAT networking all with the same result.
3. The event logs on the host OS dont show any issues with the physical disks.
Help's appreciated, TIA.
Do I need to grant some kind of access to the guest OS?
1. I am running Workstation as an administrator.
2. I have tried Bridged/Host-only/NAT networking all with the same result.
3. The event logs on the host OS dont show any issues with the physical disks.
Help's appreciated, TIA.
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An issue that arose with Windows Vista and 7 is the manner in which the OS's handle drive partitions. In essence if the OS see's the partition it will take control of it. This causes problems with workstation. Let me know if this answers your question.
However, after re-reading your post I don't know if this is going to directly answer your question. The error message you posted happens when you try to boot the vm, not when you try to access the C: drive from within the vm. Am I right?
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Can you please have a look at the last post I made, the one before this one. Thanks!
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Just the one.
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Call me crazy but i still think the link I gave you is pertinent to this issue. It is closely related to the issue you describe and the error messages also match up with process you are following.
But if you are indeed trying to reach your local C: drive try a few other things first. Can you access the internet from the guest machine? Can you ping your host PC's ip address from the guest. Can you ping the guest IP from your host. if not there is a error in your network setup in the vmworkstation.
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For the network errors, networking in Workstation should just work, so perhaps something got messed up with the installation or configuration.
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