When a user double-clicks on a drive letter, user gets a program list screen, asking which program to open the drive with or receives the following: Windows cannot find 'AcaRmoNa.ExE'

1. Open My Computer. 
2. Click on Tools>Folder Options. 
3. Check 'Show Hidden Files & Folders' and uncheck 'Hide protected operating system files'. 
4. Go to the root of the drive (example, C:\ ) in Explorer and delete the file autorun.inf if it exists. 
5. Do the same with all the drives exhibiting the same problem and reboot.
   
   If this doesn't fix it, or if you didn't find any autorun.inf file: 
6. Select Start>Run. 
7. Type regedit and hit enter. 
8. Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 
9. Expand the key. You should see various folders/keys with the drive names (C,D,E,F etc.) 
10. Make sure that the folders corresponding with the drive names do not have any sub-folders (visible when you click on the '+' sign next to the folder in the left pane) named '_Autoplay' and 'Shell'. 
11. If you see them, highlight them with a single-click and hit delete. 
12. Reboot. 

How to Perform a Windows repair on a Windows XP virtual machine in Fusion 3.x

To repair Windows, you must download a drivers file, mount the drivers, and then repair Windows:

1.     Download the SCSI driver floppy image from http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp. (Do not try to open that link; instead, ctrl+click the link, and choose Save Link As... or Download Linked File As....).

Note: When downloading in Google Chrome, the final extension may be doubled. Ensure that this file is saved asvmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp and not vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp.flp.

2.     Add a floppy drive to the virtual machine and mount the floppy image:

a.     Shut down the virtual machine.

b.     Go to Virtual Machine > Settings > Other Device.

c.     Click + and choose Add Floppy.

A dialog appears asking you to choose a floppy image file. 

d.     Browse to the location of the .flp file that you downloaded and select the file.

e.     Select Connected.

3.     Mount your Windows ISO (or put the Windows disk in the drive) and make sure the CD drive is connected by going to Virtual Machine > Settings > CDs & DVDs and selecting Connected.

4.     After the drivers have finished loading, when Windows prompts you, press S to specify additional devices.

5.     Choose VMware SCSI Controller and press Enter.

6.     Press Enter again to continue past the Specify additional devices screen.

  

7.Press Enter on the Welcome to Setup screen, to indicate you want to set up Windows. This will guide you to the               automated repair, rather than the manual repair option through the Recover Console. 

    8.Press F8 to agree to the End User Agreement.

You see a screen that says:

If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it.

9. Select the Windows install that you want to repair, if there is more than one. 

10. Press R to start the repair.

11. Continue with the Windows install wizard to repair Windows, until it completes.

Note for Windows XP 32-bit:

After the repair finishes, disconnect the floppy drive so that Windows does not try to boot from the disk. To do so:

1. When the Setup is restarting screen appears, press Control + Command to release the mouse.

2. Click the picture of the disk image in the Fusion icon tray and select Disconnect Floppy.

Warning: If you do not do this before rebooting, you may receive an error: NTLDR is missing.