Windows Vista using XP with Virtual PC 2007

"john" <> wrote ...
> All sorted I hope and thanks for all your help
> Sorted activation by not having wireless connection but cabled.

Outstanding! And, thanks for the update.

Good luck with using Virtual PC ... it's an extremely useful tool, once you
get the hang of it.

Cheers
Andrew

I am loading XP on the VPC and the host is vista home premium. I had the same
problem as John as VPC was not registering the xp cd. So as Andrew advised, I
set the CDROM as the 1st boot drive via Bios. I have changed the settings
also.

HOWEVER ITS STILL NOT REGISTERING THE BOOT CD?

what can I do? I am desperate and I need it so badly . Please help

Roy



"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

> Hi John
>
> You may need to change the boot order in the BIOS. Sounds like the VM is
> currently trying to boot from the PXE card (ie a network boot) before it
> tries the CD-ROM driver.
>
> While the VM starts up, hold down the Delete key. It will take you to the
> blue and white BIOS config screen (an AMI BIOS, just like a real PC). Then
> go to Boot, Boot Disk Priority. Make sure that CD-ROM is higher in the list
> than PXE. Hit ESC to exit or F10 to Save and Exit, if you make any changes.
>
> If the CDROM is ahead of PXE in the boot order, but the machine still looks
> for a PXE server at boot time, then your VM is not detecting the CDROM when
> it boots up. Make sure:
> - you have the physical XP CD-ROM disk in the drive, as you boot;
> - under "Settings" the VM is configured to attach its CD/DVD Drive to the
> Physical drive in the host machine (not to an ISO file).
>
> Once you have the VM configured correctly, it should boot up from your XP
> CD-ROM, just like a real PC would.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Andrew
>

"Roy" <> wrote in message
news:A3EC6B2B-7422-4FF0-8EFA-...
>I am loading XP on the VPC and the host is vista home premium. I had the
>same
> problem as John as VPC was not registering the xp cd. So as Andrew
> advised, I
> set the CDROM as the 1st boot drive via Bios. I have changed the settings
> also.
>
> HOWEVER ITS STILL NOT REGISTERING THE BOOT CD?
>
> what can I do? I am desperate and I need it so badly . Please help


Ignore the BIOS, that affects the physical machine, not the Virtual one.

Did you assign the physical CD in the configuration of the VPC image? You
can leave not assigned, assign to physical drive or assign to an ISO image.
Then you can go into the VIRTUAL BIOS and change it's boot order, or hit
(F12 I think) while the VPC is booting and get a device boot menu for a 1
time change.

I have tried that but nothing is happening..still the boot msg is coming up..
what to do? please help

"Seth" wrote:

> "Roy" <> wrote in message
> news:A3EC6B2B-7422-4FF0-8EFA-...
> >I am loading XP on the VPC and the host is vista home premium. I had the
> >same
> > problem as John as VPC was not registering the xp cd. So as Andrew
> > advised, I
> > set the CDROM as the 1st boot drive via Bios. I have changed the settings
> > also.
> >
> > HOWEVER ITS STILL NOT REGISTERING THE BOOT CD?
> >
> > what can I do? I am desperate and I need it so badly . Please help
>
>
> Ignore the BIOS, that affects the physical machine, not the Virtual one.
>
> Did you assign the physical CD in the configuration of the VPC image? You
> can leave not assigned, assign to physical drive or assign to an ISO image.
> Then you can go into the VIRTUAL BIOS and change it's boot order, or hit
> (F12 I think) while the VPC is booting and get a device boot menu for a 1
> time change.
>
>