Vista - Re: Microsoft Virtual Machine stopped working. please help.

I dunno. I just thought I'd Google your problem and that one caught my eye.
I don't know a *lot* about VPC, especially not VPC running on Vista. I much
prefer multi-booting. But Permissions issues are everywhere in Windows
Vista, so I thought the article might at least put you on the right trail.

I do recommend the addition of the VPC group to this thread (which I just
did), and the cutting out of at least the two non-general XP groups and the
Vista Setup group. After all, it isn't the XP installation you're having
problems with, or even Vista Setup/Installation. Your problem is a Win2K
installation on VPC on Vista. Concentrate your efforts in those arenas.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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oddly I prefer multi booting or dual booting as well, but I decided to try
this for once since my OEM provider does not support dual booting. at least
they still support Windows 2000, even on the PCs that are "Vista certified".
Most manufacturers dropped support for windows 2000 years ago. now some of
them are even dropping support for Windows XP because of Windows Vista. what
the heck is wrong with them. I just hope windows 7 is a heck of a lot better
than vista so that we can all just throw vista in the trash. yet, some of us
might still be using Windows XP for our businesses if we have to.

anyways, will someone please just help me fix this virtual PC issue that i
am having....

"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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If no luck after a day or so, repost the question.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>>> "Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@xxxxxx> wrote in messageThe first thing I would try would be to delete the .vmc file for the w2k
vm and try to create a new virtual machine (from the new virtual machine
wizard) linked to the existing .vhd file.

Steven, even though he was a jerk, Jack caused me to flash on the reason you
couldn't find microsoft.public.virtualpc is probably because it isn't
included on your ISP's news server (or whatever posting host you're using,
and in your case it looks like a different one each time.)

Try msnews.microsoft.com (no username/password required.) And STOP using
your real email address in news posts. No quicker way to get onto SPAM
mailing lists. Don't use one that could possibly be someone else's, but more
along the lines of notme@xxxxxx In OE, it doesn't even need to be in
email address format using the @, but I was using <none> for a log time and
recently a bunch of my posts got deleted from the server, probably because
that <none> triggered some stupid attempt at SPAM filtering.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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well, I got good news, I some how fixed the windows 2000 virtual machine. I
found a 2nd backup of the virtual machine that I never remembered creating
in the first place...

the odd thing was that the backup of the .vhd file was on the drive that I
used to create the .vhd image in the first place, so I have no idea of how
it got there. and the other hard drive that I backed up the .vhd hard drive
file to, well somehow the file got corrupted to the point where it could not
boot.

now i'm just happy that I found a backup of the file. its just to bad it was
the original version of the file that was created and not the most recent
version of the backup. but hey, its better than nothing.

now i just have to find a way to stop these files to stop corrupting
themselves in the first place and if i cannot find a way to do that, I need
to find a way to recover the files. afterall the corruption was caused by
trying to backup the .vhd files in the first place. any ideas?

From,
Steven Wabik
"Bill Grant" <not.available@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Make sure your AV or backup software is set to ignore the .vhd files,
that's one of the biggest causes of corrupted VM's that I've seen.
I've also seen corrupted copies when backing up VM's to USB drives and
I'm not sure what to say except have more than 1 backup if that's how
you're backing it up.

I'm afraid that recovering a vhd after corruption is not a real doable
thing, it's just like the hard drive went out on a real PC and
corruption can run pretty deep. You may be able to copy files off of
it by attaching it to a working VM, but that's about it.

--
Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>



On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:06:53 -0400, "Steven Wabik"
<Stevenw45@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:06:53 -0400, in microsoft.public.virtualpc,
"Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@xxxxxx>, wrote
A straight copy seems to work very well. Also, I have used pkzip and rar
and f7 (zip) on them with no ill effects. I have, but have not used, the
pre-compactor. Maybe I was lucky? ;-) As far as corrupting in place,
vista VHDs seem pretty finicky and though I have not had any go to 'not
bootable' , I have had them degrade in performance and a windows VM
undocumented excursion that had worked fine with previous Windows VMs,
including the NT kernel ones, balked badly on a Vista VM.

(Vista is a curse)

FACE

How are you "backing up" these files? You haven't really said.

Don't bother to answer if you still think I'm should be damned. I'm a
volunteer here, one that has given you assistance for no reason other than I
like helping people and solving problems. But I didn't insult you in the
slightest and I believe you owe ME an apology, which I will accept because I
recognize that you made a stupid mistake.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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yea, vita does have its issues, thats why I am going to upgrade to windows 7
when it comes out. thank goodness I am able to beta test this new operating
system. so far it works better than vista. when windows 7 comes out vista is
gone.

for the older operating systems, I may just use them in virtual machine, or
use them in a dual boot. it just depends on the applications that i will be
using with that specific operating system.

"FACE" <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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