What I am finding is the hand-off between OSX and Fusion (Windows 8.1) is very fragile. And in most cases you may find the only way to get a disk out of the drive is to power cycle. Even rebooting may leave the drive locked so neither the button on the drive or a key press in either environment will get the disk out. You can't access the disk in either environment, and things like Disk Utility will just hang if you open them. Obviously some aspect of the "storage layer" gets borked, and the drive gets put into a state where the drawer is locked. It seems that if you do things in exactly the right order you can read the disk in either OSX or the Windows VM. But if you make one mis-step, you will be looking at a reboot. Rebooting without power cycling will not solve it, and things are very slow because the "storage layer" probably can't quite load correctly. Even if you don't open VMware at all. Once the drive goes out to lunch you will probably have to force quit VMware too, because you will not get a clean shutdown.
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