Please proceed ONLY if you see the HFS+ partition flagged with the * symbol. Here you will have a list of your partitions. Where 0 is the number of your hd where you have the two systems. VMWare is not seeing the windows partition as a 'BootCamp' partiton. You are using a dual boot XP/OS X normally booting with the darwin bootloader I post here a really easy to follow guide that will make you eventually boot from your windows partition under vmware if: