Ryan Burke, question coming in and saying. “I’m running a dual boot with XP and Ubuntu 8.10. I’ve got virtual box set up with a 10 gigabyte virtual drive running XP there. I would like to migrate quick in from my net of XP drive to the virtual drive, but I cannot find my CD. Well, it works to dual restore to the virtual drive of the backup net of XP drive, and that’s get and going.” It makes sense. He ask, “Any suggestion are welcome and this is actually from drumstick in the chat room.
Drumstick, I’ll just tell you what are some of the problems that you might run into there as Drumstick would be. Immediately my concern with doing that is now. I should backup and I’ll say you know what it worth the risk because it is just the virtual machine, and you can rebuild it and everything like that. You’re not going to damage anything as long as you back up whatever is in your virtual machine okay, so that said, go ahead and try it but the first time that you boot your Windows XP into that virtual machine, it’s going to buck at and again you’re going to get the blue screen, and it’s going to say that, “Windows has shut down to protect you from damaging your computer” which is really a copy protection of the Windows Operating Systems.
So, once you get that then you can run you know insert your Windows XP disk and reinstall Windows XP in a repair mode, so you go through as if you’re going to restore, but then once you get to the point where you would normally format the drive, you would hit R. I think it is to repair. You’ll see the prompts there and that’s going to actually reinstall a lot of the DLL as you create the registry things like that and then you will be able to boot that system just fine.
If you don’t think you can find quick in disk then that might be the way to try, but if you can find that disk that would be even better. Does that help you at all?
Hey, James Moss saying, “Use ghost” that’s kind of what we’re saying is the ghost will ghost that actual physical drive, so if I can explain a little bit better, when you boot in to the Windows XP operating system Drumstick, you’re actually booted into that computer’s hardware. All the drivers are loaded for that hardware, right?
So then if you then ghost that drive, and then ghost it into a virtual machine, all of your hardware has changed even though you are in the same computer as far as Windows is concerned, the hardware is completely changed. It’s completely different computer because everything is virtual, so that’s said, of course, it’s going to think that you copied Windows XP onto another computer, and you know that if you do that it’s not going to work.
So the way to do that is to do a repair and install on Windows XP once you’ve done the ghost thing. It’s not going to overwrite to your files and your programs. It’s just going to rebuild the Windows file system. It’s going to install al the DLL again and things like that, that are critical to the boot. And then you want to make sure that you install all the service packs that you had originally and things, so that everything jibes with the original copy of the operating system too. Give that a try, let us know how it goes but like I said it’s virtual machine so have fun with it and good luck.
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