Re: Upgrade to Tiger: Re-installing VPC7?

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From: Michael Paine (mpaine_at_tpgi.com.au)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:29:39 +1100

What do you mean by backing up? With VPC6 (and I assume VPC7) you need
only backup the image file (which might be a few Gb in size - a good
case for a Superdrive). I run Win98 under VPC6 and the image file path is:
<home>: Documents: Virtual PC List: Windows 98.vpc6

On several occasions I have restored the backup file and VPC6 has worked
without problems. Once again I recommend that you create a d: drive for
your data so that the c: drive image file does not grow to an
unmanageable size:
http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/aoaug/mac_osx.html#d-drive
Dont keep all your eggs in one basket, especially if the handle is
likely to break!

Regarding OS X upgrades - I recently restored OS X after my Quicktime
program got corrupted (it is built into OS X). I started from the
original Jaguar system disk and went through the various upgrades to
10.3.8. All applications were retained during this process and seem to
work well. This ability to restore the OS but retain applications, and
their configurations, is a wonderful feature of OS X. I will likely use
the upgrade path when Tiger is released. Of course a clean install would
be desirable, if I had the time and patience (but if I had them I would
still be using a Windows PC!).

Michael Paine

hatbush wrote:

> With the Tiger upgrade soon to be available, I'd like to do a clean
> install. How can I avoid having to reinstall VPC7 and all of the
> Windows programs. Everytime I do this it takes hours and you always
> have to ring MS to get new activation codes.
>
> I've tried backing up but it doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas? This is going to be a common problem for a lot of VPC7 users.
>

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