Hi all,
I am facing a blue screen issue that appears unrecoverable in my VM: at startup, the system prompts to start in normal/safe mode and whichever way ends up with the blue screen and restarts. This happened after I was prompted to install VMWare v 6.0 while the VM was starting up - I clicked yes and it suddenly shut down. From then on the blue screen error appeared.
When this happens, we usually download another version of the VM that is currently working on another station and it boots up straight away.
But when trying to bootup a working version, the blue screen error is still there. Usually, VM folders are standalone entities that can be exchanged and will work on other machines, but not this time - I tried with 2 other working versions of the same VM.
It looks like VMWare player is using some sort of cached files, reproducing the error no matter what version of the same VM is started.
So in essence, I would like a tip on :
- Either how to clear whatever is cached with VMWare player - reinstallation did not give a fresh start and the error was still there.
- Or how to solve that blue screen error - booting up from the disk did not succeed and I could not access the recovery console.
More information:
- Trigger: This error happened after prompted to install VMWare v 6 while machine was starting up. I clicked yes and the machine shut down suddenly.
- OS: windows XP pro - Other VMs using windows XP work on my machine - other projects' VMs.
- Host machine OS: Windows 7.
Logs analysis:
- According to the logs, the following files are missing: Windows XP Professional.vmx, Windows XP Professional.vmdk
- These files are actually there in the folder of all 3 machines I tried.
I have attached the error and the logs to this post.
Any tip would be greatly appreciated 
Kind regards
Ben