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gregnash said:
Ok thanks. I will have to give that a try. Was thinking of getting vmware or parallels anyways as I have one program that is not Mac compatible and I need it for my programmable remote.
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If you get the trial of parallels, they'll give you $10 bucks off when your trial expires.
 
Well downloaded and installed. Worked great the first time and then shut the drive down and ran into some issues. Now it says that it cannot find the vmware startup items and thus cannot do anything. WTF!? Seriously having no luck.
When I click on the "play" button to try and start my session up I get the following error "Unable to open file "/Users/name/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/Boot Camp.vmwarevm/Boot Camp.vmdk": The system cannot find the file specified."
 
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Have you tried looking to see what's at that location? You can also spotlight search for the file or any vmd or vmdk files. (Command-Spacebar)
 
the problem is that I have no access to the drive what-so-ever. Or let me rephrase, I DONT THINK I do. I am new to Mac's and this kind of stuff so I am not really sure where to look for the drive. I assume that if the drive was being recognized it would be showing up in Finder but it does not. Unfortunately, I guess I need a course on the basics for this.
 
The USB drive right? It will show up on your desktop when plugged in and when you click on the Finder logo (the face) it will open a new Finder window, on the right handside you'll see devices and your USB drive will be one of them. When you use spotlight search it just searches everything.
 
adam30k - you are right that it is a USB toaster however it is not showing that is the problem. Not sure what the deal is and why it will not recognize the drive as some sort of slave drive but it doesn't. I am hoping that I did not lose all the information on the drive as there was a lot on there and I was hoping to get everything over. I did order some more ram for my windows laptop and will see if I cannot get it to hook up to that as a slave drive and partially fix this issue. Seems like there has to be some way to fix this vmware vmdk issue but I just dont know how or where to access that file system.
 
Ok was finally able to get thing working through the VMware forums with help from one of their moderators. It looks like the initial problem was that when the PC died the machine did not shutdown properly which was causing the drive to not mount properly. I was successful with finally getting VMware working again and was able to boot the drive back up and get into windows. From there I shut the drive down and was instructed to go into the "Disk Utility" and mount the drive that way. This worked and now I have access to the drive from the Finder/Devices screen.

One thing that the mod said was that with newer macs (10.5 and up I am assuming) there is absolutely no need to use NTFS-3G as the machines are NTFS native and will have no problem reading the drive. My main issue was 1) the drive was not shutdown properly causing issues, and 2) the drive was not mounted through Disk Utility (which is an alternative if the drive is not being recognized). So now comes the task of just transferring everything over from the PC drive and then, when the time comes, erasing the drive and using it as a pure backup drive.

Thanks for everyones help!!
 
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