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Some advice on Virtual Hard Disks

  • 24-09-2010 6:17pm
    #1
    -Trek-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,139 ✭✭✭


    Ok hopefully this is the right place for this ...

    I have being messing the past couple of days with Disk2VHD and so far I have successfully booted a physical copy of my old XP machine on my newer Vista machine through virtual box. The problem i am having is I can only run it in safe mode and I have no way of injecting drivers (that I know of anyway, I'm a little over my head here) as it doesn't see my vista cd drive.
    The second problem is what drivers to put in? the old drivers (xp) or the vista machines drivers. I am wondering has anyone had any success doing this here and how did you go about repairing it so that boots in normal mode? or more to the point is what I'm trying to do really possible?
    Overall what I'm trying to achieve is when I move to a newer machine (win7 possibly) is to be able to use my old programs on the newer machine (some of my programs have only one licence so re-installing is not an option) is there a better way of achieving this than the way I'm experimenting with at the moment.

    Any thoughts appreciated.


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  • #2
    Jumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    You need to research the term P2V or Physical to Virtual.
    Most virtual systems have their own specific drivers. It wont necessarily be the same drivers as the physical hardware.
    There are many P2V programs around, just converting a disk into a vDisk is not enough.


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