Vista - Trouble with VPC 2007

I installed VPC 2007 SP1 64 bit. No issues there.

Host OS is Vista Ultimate x64.

I have tried server 2003 and server 2008 with no luck. I have tried mounting the .iso from VPC and also using magic disk to mount the image and use the drive. No matter what I try I get:

No Systemdisk. Booting from harddisk.
Cannot load from harddisk.
Insert Systemdisk and press any key.

Any suggestions? I have done this on XP with no issues. I don't know what is happening here.

thanks,
Fred

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:48:20 -0600, fbeiderb <guest@xxxxxx-email.com>
wrote:
Is that the actual error message you're getting? I don't think that is
a VPC error message. In VPC you'd get the "Reboot and select proper
boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"

Where are these ISOs from?

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

The .iso are from MSDN.

The first two lines when booting refer to disk formatted with win image.

I have never seen this before. It happens if I try server 2003 or 2008 x86 or x64.

"fbeiderb" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:53ec8bc835a2b45619aae057b2343ef6@xxxxxx-gateway.com...
Could the iso files possibly be corrupt? I have just tried this onWin2k3S,
and am able to proceed with the installation as normal...
Not quite sure what you mean here... Obviously, when installing a 32-bit
Windows OS, there's no need to format the virtual hard disk manually first,
as the installation process does all that...
No point trying x64, as VPC doesn't support 64-bit guests...


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

I tried three different .iso files. None worked. I doubt all 3 could be corrupt.

I have never seen the message about winimage before.

I've tried re-downloading (to make sure I had the 64 bit version), uninstalling and reinstalling VPC, rebooted. No luck.

I run VPC as admin.

This is very strange. This is the first time I've tried to run VPC under X64, I did a lot with it under X86 and never had an issue.

Could virus or firewall be causing some issues that is making this happen?

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:01:31 -0600, fbeiderb <guest@xxxxxx-email.com>
wrote:
Where is your ISO file located? Hopefully not on a DVD drive?

If so do yourself a favour and *copy* the ISO file to your hard disk,
then capture this ISO file in your guest and then reset the guest. I
bet it will now boot up properly.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

It is on a USB drive, not on a DVD drive. I have tried capturing it and also tried to mount it with MagicDisc and have the vpc use that to do the load. MagicDisc is mounting properly because I get the autorun when it is mounted.

I can try it on a local drive when I get home.

Fred