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Hi everybody,

I am running a win xp in a vmware under Windows 7.
When I try to do a defrag using the vmware player, i got a pop-up box saying Defragmentation failed: Insufficient permission to access file.

This is not my first time encountering this, and it is on my 2nd computer.

Anybody know any solution to this?

Thanks!

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When Vmware installs it creates a User Group called _vmware_. Is your user account a member of that group?

Press Windows Key, type in Computer Management.
Go to -> Local Users and Groups -> Groups.

[Shintaro]

When Vmware installs it creates a User Group called _vmware_. Is your user account a member of that group?

Press Windows Key, type in Computer Management.
Go to -> Local Users and Groups -> Groups.

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Shintaro,

How do i add a user to that group?

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Shintaro,

I added my domain user and local user account to _vmware_ group, restarted the computer, and it still does not work.
Anymore ideas?

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I just noticed that I am able to defrag Hard Disk(SCSI) but not Hard Disk(IDE).
Anybody any ideas why, and how can i defrag an IDE, or how can i convert HD(IDE) to (SCSI) Safely..?

[Shintaro]

Then find your vmware direcroty.

• Right click on it.
• Properties
• Security
• Edit
• Add
• Type in __vmware__ (Notice that is 2 underscores on each side!)
• Check name
• OK
• Give the __vmware__ group "Full control"
• OK
• Log out
• Log back in.

Hope this helps.

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Shintaro,

It is not working still.
A little hint: I was able to defrag SCSI but not IDE vm HDD...

Anybody any ideas?

[Shintaro]

Domain user??
Have you tried not logging in to the Domain? Login as a local user?

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I only have 1 user account on my PC actually. The domain account. And i am login in the domain and i can access my network files.
I guess the question is why does defrag on SCSI works but not on IDE?

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Anybody had this problem? Not able to defrag your VM IDE HDD?