Vista - Trying To Recover XP Environment

One of my sister's business computers (XP Pro SP2) crashed and burned on
Friday. Literally! The power supply went up in smoke, and the motherboard
was ruined. This was an old Dell that is way out of warranty. I pulled the
drive and put it in one of my machines and got a backup (Acronis TrueImage
11), with lots of bad sector errors. I then ran Spinrite on it (which took
55 hours) and now have another TI backup.

I built her a new machine yesterday with a fresh install of XP Pro SP2. She
is installing some of the apps she regularly uses, but doesn't have the
install disks/CDs for a few apps she needs. Of course, despite my constant
remiders, she hasn't done a backup in years. Even if she did, we would still
be in the same position.

I'm trying to get the backup to run under Virtual PC 2007 SP1 so she can at
least access those apps in a virtual machine. I created a new VHD, mounted
in in Vista, did the TI restore to that VHD, then created a new virtual
machine using that VHD. Booting from a slipstreamed XP Pro SP2 CD in the VM,
I went through the initial recovery console steps, doing the chkdsk /r,
fixmbr, etc. Tried booting the VM and got the screen saying Windows had not
been shut down properly, etc. Tried booting to Windows anyway, but nothing
happens. Tried booting to Safe Mode and it hung on agp440.sys. Disabled
that, but it now hangs on mup.sys. Been doing searches on mup.sys and tried
everything I can find, but still no luck.

Before I resort to doing a repair install, does anyone have any other
suggestions on how to get past the mup.sys hang?

Thanks!

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:58:09 -0700, John Schneider
<johnmsch@xxxxxx> wrote:
It's not really agp.sys and mup.sys that are the cause, those are just
the last 2 things reported.

There are some hints for getting around this here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...10/279667.aspx

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

"Steve Jain" wrote:Thanks for the link Steve. Although I had done pretty much everything in
that link, and the ones referenced there, I ended up doing another
expand/copy of halacpi.dll and it works fine now. The weird thing is that I
had already copied hal.dll and ntoskrnl.exe from an existing XP SP2 VM to
this new one. Not sure why that didn't work.

One minor point. The agp440.sys absolutely was a problem. When I first
tried booting to safe mode, it hung on that driver. After disabling it, the
safe mode boot went a lot further. But, based on all my searches on mup.sys,
I can see where the problem came somewhere after that driver was loaded.

Thanks again!