FW: Vmware VM won't boot with 2 IDE drives

Vmware VM won't boot with Two IDE drives

Friday, March 23, 2012

Had a 2003 server that I virtualized. I added a second IDE drive while the VM was running (Vmware licensed for Enterprise).

After shutting it down, it would not boot. I discovered that the drive with the OS had become drive 2 so Windows picked it up as drive D instead of Drive C.

I removed the drive 1 and rebooted.

I went back in and added the second drive as a SCSI drive.

Vmware will pick up the IDE drive before the SCSI drives, thus avoiding the original problem.

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