I had a major issue with Boot Camp today on my Mac. After re-creating the Boot Camp partition and re-installing Windows, VMware Fusion could no longer boot that VM.
The Cause:
Shrank the Mac partition and created a new FAT32 partition that could be shared between my Mac and Windows. What happened next was a disaster, Boot Camp could no longer boot from the Windows Partition. After lots of trials and trying Windows repairs, I gave up and deleted the Boot Camp and FAT32 partitions and started from fresh. Re-installed Windows using Boot Camp and configured. When I then returned to my Mac and opened up Fusion, it was still trying to boot into the old Boot Camp partition.
The Fix:
Navigate to /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines
Under this folder is a folder called Boot Camp. Delete this folder and re-boot. Once you have re-started Fusion, your Boot Camp VM will be at the bottom of the Virtual Machine Library. Power up your VM and Fusion will recreate the VM and install VMware Tools.
If anybody else knows of a simpler way to reconfigure this please leave a comment, it would be greatly appreciated.
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