[dba-Tech] Casper and Virtual PC 2007

...and, by God!  It worked!  I'm sending this Gmail from Google Chrome
from inside my newly cloned VPC with 60 GB of space instead of 20.

Now, if I can only do what I did with my old-old workstation with my
old workstation...

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Steve Erbach<erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> Continuing to dabble with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.  I've increased
> the number of VPCs on my host system steadily.  I now have:
>
> DOS 6.22
> Windows 95B
> Windows 98SE
> Windows 2000
> Windows XP 32-bit (3 of them)
> Windows 7 RC 32-bit
> Windows Server 2003 32-bit
>
> I eagerly downloaded the RC for Windows Server 2008 R2, but the
> installation routine says I need a 64-bit environment.  With Virtual
> PC 2007, I can't create a 64-bit virtual PC even though my host OS is
> Windows XP x64.  Oh, well.
>
> Anyway, one of the XP 32-bit VPCs is the one I managed to create from
> an existing XP system after much labor.  My goal was to NOT have to
> re-install any of the software from this existing system which was
> about 8 old.  But I made the mistake of making the hard disk the same
> size as the original: 20 GB.  It has about 25% free space on it and I
> couldn't figure out how to convert the "fixed" virtual hard disk to a
> "dynamic".
>
> But then I remembered some other discussions about VPC on OT where
> Lembit, I think, said that he used Acronis to copy virtual drives.  I
> use Casper 5.0 and I thought that it wouldn't do the same sort of
> thing.
>
> But then, since I'm still unencumbered with a job, I thought I'd
> create a new dynamic virtual hard disk with a 60 GB capacity and test
> whether Casper 5.0 would, indeed, create a bootable copy of my 20 GB
> virtual hard disk.
>
> Right now Casper is cloning the 20 GB virtual drive onto the 60 GB
> dynamic virtual drive.  I don't know yet whether it will actually
> boot, but I should know if a short while.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Erbach