Vista - RE: Installing Windows 98

If I was to use the Restore CD + Floppy Disk that came with my old pc would
it reboot the VPC or my real host hard drive?

On 04/07/2008 in message
<65825028-F029-487B-AF5D-BD3608FC4F5B@xxxxxx> N/A wrote:
If you start the existing W98 virtual machine, insert the floppy and CD in
their respective drives then attach the CD and floppy to the virtual
machine (using the CD and Floppy menus) re-starting the virtual machine
will cause it to boot from the floppy/CD - depending on how you have the
virtual machine's BIOS set.

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
Indecision is the key to flexibility

"N/A" <NA@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Make sure the virtual machine window is in focus (click inside once) and
then when you insert the floppy and cd in the physical drives the vm will
capture them. Use the Action menu to reset the vm and if you haven't
changed any settings in the vm's bios it will start up from the floppy. As
long as the messeges that appear are in the vm's window you needn't worry
about anything happening to the host. A vm is like Las Vegas; what happens
there stays there.

Thank you t FACE, Jeff Gaines and Colin Barnhorst. I used the Restore
CD+Floppy disk and it worked I now have a VPC that runs Windows 98 perfectley
and the game now works perfectley as well at last. Now I created a second
Virtual PC thinking I would start all over again but I don't need it now how
do I go about completeley removing the second Virtual PC that I don't need?
Thanks to all who respond.

"N/A" <NA@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can simply delete the virtual machine folder for the unneeded vm. Look
in your Documents folder for the My Virtual Machines folder. The virtual
machine fies for the vm you want to delete is in there. You delete them
like you would any other data file. You remove the entry on the Virtual PC
Console by highlighting the entry and clicking Remove.

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:51:00 -0400, FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>
wrote:
FWIW:
And I always add an entry to the environment variables:
MYVIRTUALMACHINES=c:\VirtualPC
This moves the default location of new VirtualPC files out from the
not-so-useful original path in "My Documents"

And for Windows I always uncheck the completely wrong default setting
"Use simple file sharing (recommended)", which cripples all networking
at least on XP.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)