![]() ![]() so I have some time to test everything in Virtual PC and so I can try the move again if I need to. I guess I basically want to know the easiest way to move my machine to a virtual machine, without killing off my original machine. I've been afraid if I run sysprep on the laptop before taking a Ghost image, that it will 'reset' a bunch of settings on the laptop? I want to make sure that everything is working fine in Virtual PC before I decommission my laptop. I don't want to deploy this image to a bunch of other computers, I just want to move my install to a virtual PC. If I have to use sysprep, will it mess up the laptop? Basically the fan has died in my laptop, and Dell doesn't have any replacements. Is there a way to do this without using sysprep? Maybe I have to use the CD that shipped with the laptop (plain XP Pro with no service packs), instead of the ISO images from my MSDN subscription? Or maybe "Genuine Windows Advantage" or whatever it's called is messing things up? I let it run for several hours but it seemed stuck. After a while it gets to the 37 minutes remaining again and says it again installing devices. ![]() Battler wrote: For stock Virtual PC 2007, I recommend also using the IB000-B7FF ICC00-DFFF XC000-C7FF XE000-FFFF parameters with EMM386.EXE, in addition to NOEMS. It reboots to the xp graphics part of the install and says it has 39 minutes remaining. Re: HELP SoundBlaster 16 on Windows 3.11 on Virtual PC 200. Then the install says it needs to restart. The install runs for quite a while, and it brings up the XP graphics and gets to the point of saying there's 37 minutes left and it's installing devices. (This is based on some instructions I found on the web). I tell it to repair the existing install, and the install starts. it proceeds then tells me it's found an existing copy which it offers to repair. When booting from the install CD, I tell it NOT to run the recovery console but to instead install Windows. First I tried using XP Pro sp2, then I tried an XP Pro sp3 image. Before trying to boot the virtual PC for the first time I tried running a repair of the machine using a WinXP install ISO image. Since I've never used sysprep, I created a ghost image without using sysprep, and then restored the image to a new Virtual PC hard drive (this went fine). I am now trying to do the same with an XP Pro sp3 machine, but I am not having any luck. I manged to create an image of a Win98 SE physical machine and restore it to a Virtual PC machine in virtual PC 2007.
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