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Originally posted by Jarrod
correct me if i'm wrong but doing a system prep like that is for migrating from a vmdk file, i have done it plenty of time using the physical disk without a vmdk file and it worked 100% of the time with xp and ubuntu
The drivers will be the same whether it's a .vmdk or a physical disk.
Your system is probably one of the cases where the system is still bootable while using the drivers of the VM, but on other systems this is not always possible. I've tried it on my previous laptop and it gave me a BSOD if I tried to boot my VMware Windows XP installation from outside the VM.
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