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?

Dewotter · 30 May 2009 at 01:43

Tried a reinstall of VMWare? What version is it?

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

Dewotter · 30 May 2009 at 01:55

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

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:

SHARKTICUS · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:14

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

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...])

Pho · 1 Jun 2009 at 12:32

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

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?

SHARKTICUS · 1 Jun 2009 at 15:19

If you want to start a scandisk, the easy way to start it off is in Windows itself - go to Explorer, right click on the drive, then click on Properties. Once there, click on the Tools tab and there should be something about checking for errors. If should pop up with a small box where you should tick both boxes - then start it off. Sometimes it will say (depending on the drive you are testing) that it can't do it now and will have to schedule it next time you start your computer. If that's the case, then say ok to it and then just restart the machine. It will come up before it loads in Windows so that files aren't in use, and should then start going through any problems.

Might not fix the problem, but not a bad thing to do every so often anyway just in case of any other problems.

SHARKTICUS · 1 Jun 2009 at 15:20

By the way, read the message that pops up - it says press a key if you want to SKIP the check - so don't do that!

Pho · 1 Jun 2009 at 19:33

Try chkdsk /r c: instead (/r = repair)

sethiroth66 said:
I'll give it a try now, does it have the same functionality?

I've not really used VMware much but Virtual Box works perfectly well. I think VMware is meant to have more networking options, but if you don't need all those then I imagine either will be good. It depends on what you're trying to do really, I mainly use it as a sandboxed OS rather than for anything too technical

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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