I had to move an existing guest to a new datastore and did this by removing the guest from the inventory, moving the files and was going to add it to the inventory when I realised the vmx file had dissappeared. No idea yet why but I fixed it by creating a new guest and pointing it to the existing disk file.
The server seemed to boot fine but I then realised the network card wasn't working, it shows up in the windows device manager as 'This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1). The parameter is incorrect.'
I removed the e1000 and installed the vmxnet3 instead as I think this was the original card before the hardware config was recreated. I get the same problem. So far I've tried removing the nic and any hidden nics, restarting with no networking and then installing a new card and letting the drivers install. I've also removed vmware tools and reinstalling, manually installing the drivers from the vmware tools directory but still get the same result.
Its annoying as the server is there except for the networking and I really don't want to have to reinstall all from backup, especially as its going to be hard to transfer the existing data off without any networking.
Just wondering if anyone has seen anything similar? I found reference to a MS hotfix "0x0000007B" Stop error after you replace an identical iSCSI network adapter in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or… which some people seemed to suggest might help but it has done anything.
Screen of the error: http://i.imgur.com/Wr3fLAd.png
Thanks!.