My iMac is no longer recognising my windows 7 install disk.

My 27in iMac is failing to recognise the windows install disk as I try and install it in a virtual machine using VMware fusion 3. It has managed this before, and I had been running it successfully for over a year but (as is often the way with windows) a clean install was needed. The iMac is still running snow leopard ( as before) it and fusion are patched up to date. Nothing different than before. I've even tried a different windows 7 disk and the iMac simply ejects it with no message. It does manage to recognise every other disk it insert. No messages given. Any clues out there.

appears that apple has changed SMB code, and now its not possible login from windows on mac.
i installed snow leopard and now works fine.
apple is capable to make it run paying new license of smb code, but isnted of this, apple has created new protocol smbx and now, all others need to adapt your code to apple..
bad movement.. i am thinking sell imac and no back to apple anymore..

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