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Granny Grump
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      12-16-2007
New laptop, with Vista.

Installed Virtual PC, created an XP whatever to install XP into,
finally got the XP CD to start up, got the setup.exe to run, got the
Welcome to Win XP screen, BUT.....the install XP option is greyed out!

Please tell me how to get XP to install in the Virtual PC? The
Virtual PC site doesn't help me one bit

If I can't get XP working on this laptop in the next few days, I am
returning it and get a laptop configured for XP.
 
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Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]
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      12-16-2007
Did you create a fixed disk with enough hard disk space to install Windows
XP? How memory did you allocate to the Virtual Machine?

For issues relating to Virtual PC, you might want to drop this question in
the following ng:
microsoft.public.virtualpc
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"Granny Grump" <> wrote in message
news:...
> New laptop, with Vista.
>
> Installed Virtual PC, created an XP whatever to install XP into,
> finally got the XP CD to start up, got the setup.exe to run, got the
> Welcome to Win XP screen, BUT.....the install XP option is greyed out!
>
> Please tell me how to get XP to install in the Virtual PC? The
> Virtual PC site doesn't help me one bit
>
> If I can't get XP working on this laptop in the next few days, I am
> returning it and get a laptop configured for XP.



 
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Ronnie Vernon MVP
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      12-16-2007
Granny

The Virtual PC operates exactly like a separate computer. It sounds like you
may be trying to use an XP 'Upgrade' disk to install XP. You need to have a
full installation disk to install XP onto a new Virtual Hard Drive.

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"Granny Grump" <> wrote in message
news:...
> New laptop, with Vista.
>
> Installed Virtual PC, created an XP whatever to install XP into,
> finally got the XP CD to start up, got the setup.exe to run, got the
> Welcome to Win XP screen, BUT.....the install XP option is greyed out!
>
> Please tell me how to get XP to install in the Virtual PC? The
> Virtual PC site doesn't help me one bit
>
> If I can't get XP working on this laptop in the next few days, I am
> returning it and get a laptop configured for XP.


 
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Charlie
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      12-16-2007
I don't understand. If VPC operates like a seperate computer why can't you
do a clean install with an upgrade xp disk and verified with a Win 98 disk
during the install?

"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <> wrote in message
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> Granny
>
> The Virtual PC operates exactly like a separate computer. It sounds like
> you may be trying to use an XP 'Upgrade' disk to install XP. You need to
> have a full installation disk to install XP onto a new Virtual Hard Drive.
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Granny Grump" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> New laptop, with Vista.
>>
>> Installed Virtual PC, created an XP whatever to install XP into,
>> finally got the XP CD to start up, got the setup.exe to run, got the
>> Welcome to Win XP screen, BUT.....the install XP option is greyed out!
>>
>> Please tell me how to get XP to install in the Virtual PC? The
>> Virtual PC site doesn't help me one bit
>>
>> If I can't get XP working on this laptop in the next few days, I am
>> returning it and get a laptop configured for XP.

>



 
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Granny Grump
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      12-17-2007

>Did you create a fixed disk with enough hard disk space to install Windows
>XP? How memory did you allocate to the Virtual Machine?


I allocated 80G to the Virtual Machine I believe. I had (and still
have) no intentions of using Vista at this point in time.

My WinXP is not an upgrade, it is the real thing.

Maybe I should just remove the hard drive I created with the Wizard,
and start fresh?

>For issues relating to Virtual PC, you might want to drop this question in
>the following ng:
>microsoft.public.virtualpc


Thanks, but I don't think my news server has that one..I'll call
tomorrow and ask that they get it.

I'll also look at Microsoft's site to see if I can find it there.

 
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Granny Grump
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      12-17-2007
Ronnie,

>The Virtual PC operates exactly like a separate computer. It sounds like you
>may be trying to use an XP 'Upgrade' disk to install XP. You need to have a
>full installation disk to install XP onto a new Virtual Hard Drive.


It is not an upgrade disk, it is the full thing....

I got to the screen saying Welcome to Win XP, with the 3 different
options, but the first option of installing XP was grayed out.

 
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Granny Grump
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      12-17-2007

>>Did you create a fixed disk with enough hard disk space to install Windows
>>XP? How memory did you allocate to the Virtual Machine?

>
>I allocated 80G to the Virtual Machine I believe. I had (and still
>have) no intentions of using Vista at this point in time.
>
>My WinXP is not an upgrade, it is the real thing.
>
>Maybe I should just remove the hard drive I created with the Wizard,
>and start fresh?
>
>>For issues relating to Virtual PC, you might want to drop this question in
>>the following ng:
>>microsoft.public.virtualpc

>
>Thanks, but I don't think my news server has that one..I'll call
>tomorrow and ask that they get it.
>
>I'll also look at Microsoft's site to see if I can find it there.


Found it, thanks!

 
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Michael Palumbo
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      12-17-2007


"Granny Grump" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
>>Did you create a fixed disk with enough hard disk space to install Windows
>>XP? How memory did you allocate to the Virtual Machine?

>
> I allocated 80G to the Virtual Machine I believe. I had (and still
> have) no intentions of using Vista at this point in time.
>
> My WinXP is not an upgrade, it is the real thing.
>
> Maybe I should just remove the hard drive I created with the Wizard,
> and start fresh?
>
>>For issues relating to Virtual PC, you might want to drop this question in
>>the following ng:
>>microsoft.public.virtualpc

>
> Thanks, but I don't think my news server has that one..I'll call
> tomorrow and ask that they get it.
>
> I'll also look at Microsoft's site to see if I can find it there.
>


Simply add this server to your newsreader.

msnews.microsoft.com

Mic

 
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Granny Grump
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      12-18-2007
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:56:29 -0500, "Michael Palumbo"
<> wrote:

>
>
>"Granny Grump" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>>
>>>Did you create a fixed disk with enough hard disk space to install Windows
>>>XP? How memory did you allocate to the Virtual Machine?

>>
>> I allocated 80G to the Virtual Machine I believe. I had (and still
>> have) no intentions of using Vista at this point in time.
>>
>> My WinXP is not an upgrade, it is the real thing.
>>
>> Maybe I should just remove the hard drive I created with the Wizard,
>> and start fresh?
>>
>>>For issues relating to Virtual PC, you might want to drop this question in
>>>the following ng:
>>>microsoft.public.virtualpc

>>
>> Thanks, but I don't think my news server has that one..I'll call
>> tomorrow and ask that they get it.
>>
>> I'll also look at Microsoft's site to see if I can find it there.
>>

>
>Simply add this server to your newsreader.
>
>msnews.microsoft.com
>
>Mic


Thanks!

 
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