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10-07-2009
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| | Creating vhd from bootable HD I have an old small ISA HD with a stripped bootable DOS 6.22. I would like to make a vhd of this physical drive. I did it by connecting the HD via an adapter to the USB in a Vista PC. I created an ISO file of the attached HD, saved it to the Vista HD. I created a new Virtual Hard drive in VPC2007 and when the empty Vhd started, I captured the saved ISO file. But nothing happened. Where I did wrong? -- Håkan |
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10-07-2009
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| | Re: Creating vhd from bootable HD On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:01:21 +0300, "HBj" <hakan.bjorkstrom@newsgroup> wrote: Quote: >I have an old small ISA HD with a stripped bootable DOS 6.22. I would like >to make a vhd of this physical drive. I did it by connecting the HD via an >adapter to the USB in a Vista PC. I created an ISO file of the attached HD, >saved it to the Vista HD. I created a new Virtual Hard drive in VPC2007 and >when the empty Vhd started, I captured the saved ISO file. But nothing >happened. Where I did wrong? You're likely going to need to copy the contents of the ISO, then make that partition active and run the DOS SYS command on it to get the necessary hidden system files installed. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ http://smudj.wordpress.com/ |
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10-08-2009
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| | Re: Creating vhd from bootable HD Thank you Steve, Now I have simply the HD on my desk attached to the Vista PC with a USB cable. If I copy the ISO file to a second VHD of a running Virtual Client (Win2k), is it then possible to SYS that partition with the tool of Wink2 from the USB attached HD to the second VHD of the client (SYS G: D  Håkan "Steve Jain [MVP]" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message news:qippc5thimtspe39v8eqqllqslucv5oamc@newsgroup Quote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:01:21 +0300, "HBj" > <hakan.bjorkstrom@newsgroup> wrote: > Quote: >>I have an old small ISA HD with a stripped bootable DOS 6.22. I would like >>to make a vhd of this physical drive. I did it by connecting the HD via an >>adapter to the USB in a Vista PC. I created an ISO file of the attached >>HD, >>saved it to the Vista HD. I created a new Virtual Hard drive in VPC2007 >>and >>when the empty Vhd started, I captured the saved ISO file. But nothing >>happened. Where I did wrong? > ISOs and hard drives don't have the same boot methods. > You're likely going to need to copy the contents of the ISO, then make > that partition active and run the DOS SYS command on it to get the > necessary hidden system files installed. > > -- > Cheers, > Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP > http://vpc.essjae.com/ > http://smudj.wordpress.com/ |
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10-08-2009
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| | Re: Creating vhd from bootable HD On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:08:56 +0300, "HBj" <hakan.bjorkstrom@newsgroup> wrote: Quote: >Thank you Steve, > >Now I have simply the HD on my desk attached to the Vista PC with a USB >cable. If I copy the ISO file to a second VHD of a running Virtual Client >(Win2k), is it then possible to SYS that partition with the tool of Wink2 >from the USB attached HD to the second VHD of the client (SYS G: D > >Håkan VFD (http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm) I'm not sure if Win2K will work correctly. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ http://smudj.wordpress.com/ |
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