I did the converter from xp boot, and it's the same. When turning on the VM, you get the screen boot manager like normal and selections as normal. Xp just doesn't boot. After selecting Xp, i can see the bar at the bottom running from left to right and that's it.
ok, i assume your host is dual core, now you can try to configure the vm to have 2 vcpus, then it may boot, but no guarantee, since there are other stuff need to be adjusted too.
Not sure what happened but i redid the VM creation, paid attention to the 2 vcpus, booted to xp and it works. I'm sure i had this setting before though. Let me see if having 1vcpu works or not?
Edit: it looks like changing the amount of vCPUs isn't a good idea from a stability point of view as advised in the setting itself. Getting BSODs but still about to boot both SOs. With 1 vCPU setting.
Last edited by aem; 16 Oct 2009 at 04:48.
Have an issue with this software. Created a VHD from my other laptop (it's a dual core, 2GB HP business laptop running XP) which resulted in 57GB file. When I attempt to load it as virtual machine (which is, if I understand correctly, is the point of Disk2vhd) on my main laptop (IBM/Lenovo T60p) the virtual machine window just sits there forever at the boot screen.
Apparently the software is working, so what am I doing wrong?
As I mentioned in one of the previous messages, T60 is very tough, you will have to change the bios disk heads info in order to make it to boot. You can first try change vm's # of vcpus to 2, if still not booting, there might be some other things need to be tweaked.
yes , I understand that, you want to your old xp as vm using virtual pc on Windows 7. But you will need to modify the xp virtual disk file in order to make it to boot in a vm
I think i had the same issue at the start when booting to my Xp part of my dual boot. I'd say delete your VM and recreate a new one.
I can't remember if the giving the VM 2 CPUs helped or not but i recreated mine with 2 CPUs and it worked. Refer to my previous posts.
With my VHD i boot it off my USB HDD and it's fine. I'm not sure what Huisnro is refer to though.
send an email to info AT remotesoft.com asking for MyOldPCs, i will send you a trial version, and it should work for you.
For T60, there are lots of things to modify, for example, you need to change the disk head number to 255 in NTFS boot sectors, which is not easy for you to do manaully. Other things, you need to disable intelppm.sys, etc.
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