Just a guess but MSFT did cheese off a lot of folk about the agreement where you are not allowed to put anything less than Windows 7 Pro into a VM. Now that this has failed you have to guess if they made good on their word.
Bob
About a monht ago, my windows 7 (32bit) on VMware Workstation suddenly black screen. For more information, please refer link below to see the image for my black screen;
Windows black screen image
Everytinhg find untill i pass the 'starting windwos', then all the screen become black ,the on thing i can see is trademark 'Windows 7 Home Premium' ( Like what you see above) and my cursor.
I try to make startup repair but it didnt work...I hope somebody will help me with this problem.
Thank you.

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