Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 03:07:47 CST 2010
Hello Steve, 2010/1/12 Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> > Mr. President, > > I am honored, sir, to offer my poor knowledge to help you out! > Ha ha, I love it, Mark > > This applies to Microsoft Virtual PC. > > I used two free products to create VHDs from existing *Windows XP > Pro*systems: WinImage ( > http://www.winimage.com/download.htm) and Sysinternals Disk2vhd ( > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx). When I > ran > these programs on my old workstations, I simply saved the VHDs on my main > system over the network. > > Then I created the VMs and used an ISO of the Windows XP installation disk > on each VM to do a repair installation of XP. I presume that you know that > that DOESN'T mean that first "repair" or recover choice on the first > Windows > installation screen. You have to pick a regular install of Windows...then > the installation program detects that a version of Windows already exists > and that you want to repair the existing installation. > > Those are the two basic steps. I had a hell of a time with my second > attempt at doing this since the physical workstation's hard disk had > registry errors. But after I ran PCTools Registry Mechanic, I used > Disk2vhd > to make the VHD and then successfully did a Windows repair and voilá! > > I tried doing the same process with an old Windows 95 laptop but I haven't > been successful. Maybe a repair installation of Windows 98 would work, I > don't know from personal experience. I, like Drew, have got multiple > Windows VMs: Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and 7 to go along with the two > "conversion" VMs I mentioned. I also have a DOS VM I made with Drew's > help. > Installing those versions of Windows and DOS was pretty straightforward. > > For older versions of Windows I did need to use the older version of > Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 to get the Virtual Machine Additions to work. > > Does that help? > > I would also say that DOS apps run well under Windows XP, even ones that > use > memory-resident utilities. Windows 98 ran DOS apps better than Windows > 2000 > did, but XP outshines either by a long way. > > Regards, > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:30 AM, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > What technique do you use for doing this? > > > > I am doing a job this week where I'm setting up VPC VMs on a new XP > > machine. > > > > The client currently runs a number of DOS apps on a Win98 PC. > > > > My plans are to create a DOS VM and copy the DOS apps/files over to it > and > > see if I can skip Win98 altogether. But there may also be some little > used > > applications on this PC that may require Win98. The problem is that this > is > > a production machine and I can't have the time with it to determine this > > until I get the apps/files/hardware all working for the DOS programs > which > > are vital to daily ops. Once that is accomplished I can determine if I > need > > to image the HD and create a Win98 VM. > > > > I was planning on using Acronis for imaging the HD and converting to a > > Win98 > > VM this but would welcome any suggestions. > > > > John B. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >