VMWare/Windows Problem

sethiroth66 · 30 May 2009 at 01:30

Hey i'm having a Windows/VMWare Workstation problem

i'll go to load VMWare Workstation and i'll sit and watch the memory usage in Task Manager, and it goes to 29,000K MEM Usg. and stops loading...

any ideas on whats going on?

sethiroth66 · 30 May 2009 at 01:47

RKO said:
Tried a reinstall of VMWare? What version is it?

i dunno what version, it wont load for me to find out xD

i think its VMware Workstation 6.5.2 Build 156735 Final

sethiroth66 · 30 May 2009 at 01:57

RKO said:
Definately try a uninstall, install, sounds like something fundamental has gone wrong.

will do, cheers, i'll report back with status

sethiroth66 · 30 May 2009 at 02:57

Same problem D:

edit:-
i think i have a windows problem, its happening with other applications
and locking them into memory too...

sethiroth66 · 1 Jun 2009 at 10:52

The problem is still occuring.
The same happened with VLC, it wont show the GUI or the Video but i can hear sound playing.

i've dont a system repair and re-installed the software, done a virus scan. still i have no idea... anyone have any suggestions?
preferably something that wont require re-formatting D:

sethiroth66 · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:18

SHARKTICUS said:
Have you tried a scandisk? It's amazing how many problems it fixes as it looks through system files as well!

No i havent even heared of it, i'll give it a look into when i get home. (College At the moment[even though i have no need to be in...])

sethiroth66 · 1 Jun 2009 at 14:35

SHARKTICUS said:
Have you tried a scandisk? It's amazing how many problems it fixes as it looks through system files as well!

i got this...

CMD said:
C:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleting index entry CCF368~1.HTP in index $I30 of file 72.
Deleting index entry cch~17c888432305e.htp in index $I30 of file 72.
Deleting index entry cch~17c888448a7df.htp in index $I30 of file 72.
Deleting index entry CCH~17~4.HTP in index $I30 of file 72.
Deleting index entry dht.dat in index $I30 of file 17522.
Deleting index entry resume.dat in index $I30 of file 17522.
Index verification completed.

Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.

read only wtf?

Pho said:
Have you tried VirtualBox? It should be able to open VMWare images.

I'll give it a try now, does it have the same functionality?

sethiroth66 · 1 Jun 2009 at 20:53

Pho said:
Have you tried VirtualBox? It should be able to open VMWare images.

Same problem occurs with VirtualBox

edit: chkdsk will run on startup now, thanks Pho

sethiroth66 · 1 Jun 2009 at 23:13

CHKDSK ran fine, did its job, no errors after

problem still occurs