Lion and VMware Partition

does any know if a clean install of Lion will wipe off the VMware partition?? I cant find my WIN install disk.

coocooforcocoapuffs wrote:
Yes, and don't be surprised by the pop up the first time you run VMware using that image that says something like: Did you move or copy? Just click COPIED and you will be fine there. Good luck with your upgrade!
Message was edited by: coocooforcocoapuffs: replace moved with copied
Are you sure you wanted to say copied?  "Copied" will change the UUID and if this is a Windows virtual machine, will prompt for reactivation.  "Moved" will not change anything, so no prompting for reactivation.  Reactivation is usually not a big deal for most people, but under certain licensing sigtuations, you may not want to go through the reactivation process.  As long as you're not actually making multiple separate copies of the virtual machines, you usually would select moved.

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