Re: Windows 7 and Windows XP VM: disk drive issue

Hi Tony
I have the latest version of AVS4you which works fine in Win7 64bit

"Tony Lima" <> wrote in message
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> Tried that a couple of days ago. Got the F: drive in the VM pointed at
> the
> DVD. And -- it could play DVDs in the VM. BUT I can't do anything else.
>
> The real problem is that I'm trying to use the AVS audio - video editing
> suite. It won't run under Win7. And I haven't been able to get it
> running
> under the XP VM. (Yes, I tried compatibility mode before installing the
> VM.)
>
> Any other ideas? Thanks for the tip. - Tony
>
>
> On 9/8/10 7:30 PM, in article
> com, "R. C. White"
> <> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Tony.
>>
>> I haven't worked with virtual machines enough to be sure of this,
>> but...can't you run Disk Management from that WinXP installation? If you
>> can, then just use it to assign any unused letter to any "drive". I put
>> "drive" in quotes because letters are not assigned to physical disk
>> drives
>> but to partitions on those disks (and to volumes on optical drives, USB
>> flash drives, etc.).
>>
>> Why not use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to assign the letter F: to the
>> DVD drive? Or X: or Y: or Z:? Many of us have been doing that ever
>> since
>> Disk Management first appeared in Win2K. There is NO requirement that
>> letters be assigned in sequence or that we can't skip as many letters as
>> we
>> like.
>>
>> RC
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