Are you sure you added the 2003 driver ?
Why don't you use a BartPE-based ColdClone CD then adding drivers after boot is easy.
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description of vmx-parameters:
VMware-liveCD:
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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...