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Virtual XP - Assign a drive letter to a host drive
I loaded the Windows 7 Virtual PC then I loaded the "Windows XP Mode" virtual machine. I am able to see my W7 host drives as "C on EDDYS-E6440". But the software I'm using needs to use a drive letter. I would like to call it W. So I tried to use Tools->Map Network Drive. I used folder == \\eddys-e6440\c the user name == eddys-e6440\eddyq but it says it can't find it: "The network path \\eddys-e6440\c could not be found".
So I used "whoami" on the W7 side and it does in fact show the host and user name are eddys-e6440\eddyq. Then I went to the W7 side and mapped a drive there exactly the same way and that worked (so I know I have all the syntax, names and case correct).
Then I tried creating a new account on the XP side called eddyq (the same user/password as the W7 side). But when I use Start->Log Off the W7 side gets a message saying "Windows Virtual PC has stopped working" (a.k.a. crash). So I tried "shutdown /r" and while restarting the VM it again crashed.
Does Windows XP Mode have this restriction? If so is there any way to make "C on EDDYS-E6440" appear as a simple drive letter?