Grub Rescue before even Installing Ubuntu 14.10 GNOME on VMWare?

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So I'm doing a fresh install of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 on VMWare and at first launch of the VM it goes straight to Grub Rescue. I will note I AM USING A PHYSICAL DISK and I have had an installation of 14.10 GNOME on this HDD previously, however I have reformatted this drive at least 5 times.

I have tried using NTFS, and EXT4 FileSystems. When I use NTFS Grub Rescue complains about an Unknown Filesystem, so I tried Ext4. This however made Grub Rescue complain saying "no such partition".

I'm confused as to why I'm getting errors before I have even installed Linux? I can't even boot to the ISO?

Any help would be appreciated.

By the way I'm using Windows 8.1 with VMWare Version 11.0.0 build-2305329

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This sounds more like a boot-order problem. Make sure you've set tje boot order to Optical first. How do you know it's Grub rescue? Is there a promt saying so, or did you just assume it? nd by physical disk you mean that you actually have a second hard drive in your host system entirely dedicated to the VM? Not just a partition? I'd suggest using just a normal Virtual HDD in that case, since the performance impact is quite small, and it's way easier to handle.
Also, a screenshot of the relevant config details/the error might be usefull.