Cannot recreate the Boot Camp Volume in Fusion 6

I have been successfully using Fusion 5 with Bootcamp since it was released. I upgraded to 6 today and he has me remove my VMWare Bootcamp file and recreate it. When I go to recreate, on the screen "Select a Boot Camp Volume" the BOOTCAMP drive icon has an icon warning then to him with the text "If another virtual machine using the disk, it must be first turned off." No virtual machines are running, and I restarted my Mac. I can't past the screen... If I select the volume and the option 'create a Boot Camp Virtual Machine' the button continue rest grey.

Craig

FYI, I had this same problem. I have Paragon NTFS driver installed on my system and it was interfering with power recreate the machine virtual boot camp. I fixed it by going to system preferences, select NTFS for Mac and clicking on the box to turn the Paragon NTFS, rebooted and VMware allowed me to do a boot camp virtual machine. Hope that helps.

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