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VM to Physical Hardware - Remove VMware Tools

I recently moved a VM to physical hardware and cannot uninstall vmware tools. When I try from Add/Remove Programs, it give me an error saying that it cannot find a network resource. Is it looking for the original install files? Can I download these so that it can uninstall? Is there a manual process if all else fails?

I've been searching all day on VMware's site, but no luck on uninstalling VMware Tools on Windows Server 2003. There was plently of information on how to do it on different flavors of Linux though.

JBlond

Which VMware product do you used in the past?

If it was VMware Server or Workstation, just search for iso-files in the appplication folder. There should be a 'windows.iso'-file. You can burn this file to a CD or mount it using a virtual CD/DVD drive like Daemon Tools (http://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon).

Copy the files from the image to a folder on the server, right-click on the msi-file and choose 'Uninstall'.

davismisbehavis

Could you not just disable the VMware tool service on the server? or do you really want to remove the software?

rfta

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dvaismisbehavis - I guess I could disable the services, but I would prefer to have it completely gone.
LBlond - I tried to mount the .iso image with the software you linked to, but it's not giving me a drive letter. It says it mounted the .iso but that's it.
I'm heading up there to burn it to a cd and will try the uninstall.
I'll let you know what happens.

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rfta

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Burning an .iso of esx server didn't work. It didn't have vmware tools on it or at least I couldn't find them. I did find a vmware tools iso on another vmware server called windows.iso, but it didn't help either. Your solution worked.

Thank you.