I recently updated my Gentoo box to the latest version available (I tought "few hours compile time"... but no.. it actually took the whole night!). Since I also had the vmware-player im my "world" it got updated too. Unfortunately, I was unable to start the XP vmware after I rebooted my PC. I don't know what the reason was but all my stuff on that virtual machine seemed to be GONE! All I could see was just a blue screen (which happened to appear only for about 200ms.. which is long enough to take a screenshot).
If you happened to have the same problem, here is what I did:
- Took the XP installation CD and started vmware with it
- When the installation app asks you what to do, choose REPAIR (press 'R' key)
- run CHKDSK app (may take a while, depending on size of your disk)
- done. CHKDSK should print out smth about finding errors, etc.
- restart vmware.
It helped me, maybe it can also help you. Good luck!
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