Vista - Installing Windows NT Server in VPC 2007

I am having difficulty installing windows NT Server in Virtual PC 2007.

It is not detecting any IDE hard drives and is asking for a "Driver Disk".

I need to install NT Server to create a temporary BDC to migrate from NT to
SBS Server 2003. I have a license for NT Server as it was from a BDC that is
no longer in service.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:24:03 -0700, Guyson IT
<GuysonIT@xxxxxx> wrote:
That's odd. Try dropping the RAM down to 64MB for the install and see
if that makes any difference. The NT4 installer doesn't like to
install in VPC with a lot of RAM. You can increase the RAM later after
the install completes.

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

I reduced the RAM to 64MB as you reccomended.

Windows did not see the mass storage device.

Setup has recognized the following mass storage devices in your computer:

ide cd-rom (aTAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller

It does not see the Virtual Hard Drive...

I am running Virtual PC 2007 on a Windows Vista Ultimate Lenovo X60 tablet PC.

I also set the Virtual PC to change RAM to 64MB, run in XP Compatbility
mode, and flag the software to run as an administrator. After I did this, the
NT install could still not see the virtual hard disk (which is a SATA
drive...)

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:54:01 -0700, Guyson IT
<GuysonIT@xxxxxx> wrote:
Which Windows??? You have not yet installed Windows so where does it
not see the drive?
The host (Vista) is not what needs to "see" the virtual drive, it is
the guest operating system that will "see" it once you have started
the boot/install process there.
How do you know this?
No, the emulated VPC2007 guest hard drives (the VHD files) are
*always* seen inside the guest operating system as IDE drives!

How big a drive did you create for the NT4 machine? If I remember
correctly there was a limitation in the size at about 8 Gb.

Additionally, what do you use to boot the guest machine? If I remember
correctly you had to boot off of three floppies, so you need first to
have these either physical in the host floppy drive or as virtual
floppies (VFD files) captured in the virtual floppy drive.
The contents of these floppies could be created from the NT4 CD, but
only on a machine containing both a CD drive and a floppy drive....

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

I suppose, you really create and connect virtual hard drive to your virtual
machine, and in virtual machine BIOS you can see it.
What the size of virtual disk? Let me remind you, than NT4 has some problems
with sizes of hdd and partitions, for the test just try to connect hdd with
size from 4GB to 16GB (default hdd size while creating hdd with wizard).
Recheck this in virtual machine BIOS.

Also, try to boot in your virtual machine from, e.g. DOS diskette or some
recovery disk to see the connected hdd. Did you this?

"Guyson IT" wrote: