WinPE or Windows 7/8 not seeing VMWare Workstation VM Hard Drives issue

By | November 7, 2013
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When attempting to capture an XP image using MDT2012U1 from a VMWare Workstation machine, I ran into an issue because WinPE could not see the Hard Drive when attempting the .WIM capture.  After some searching, I found that adding the following setting to my Virtual Machine’s .VMX configuration file fixed the issue.

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "9"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
memsize = "4096"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "BuildAndCapture-001-000003.vmdk"

Another useful setting is to force the VMWare machine to emulate an Intel E1000 adapter.

scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:41:1A:54"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

/Brian G

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