Hello all,
I have been struggling with this issue for 2 months now and finally am totally out of ideas.
We have a single host, IBM x3650 M4 2x Xeon E5-26200's. ESXi 5.1u1 (IBM build) 32gb (soon to be 64gb) of RAM vsphere Essentials license
I should note that this also happened on ESXi 5.1 (IBM build).
Here's the issue,
I create an XP Pro VM, 80gig HD, stock other settings. I use an XP Pro sp3 image (that I have used on workstations and VM Workstation v6 - 9 just fine) to do the install. It sees the available partition and allows partitioning and formatting.
But each and every time the format fails.
Error (blue screen with white text)
Setup was unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged.
Make sure the drive is switched on and properly connected.... blah blah blah.
I've searched google and I can't see any other issues reported.
Dean