My XP OS is corrupted in VPC v. 7; what does MS expect me to do?
- From: "Journalist_Jill" <ggey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Apr 2005 12:05:56 -0700
I'm a journalist reviewing Virtual PC for Mac Version 7. I have a
simple question for which I have not been able to find an answer
anywhere on Microsoft's site. I don't necessarily want to contact MS's
PR hacks and get a "canned" answer to this, so here I am...
I've installed and been successfully using VPC 7 with Windows XP Pro.
Then my XP operating system became corrupted (for some unknown reason).
When trying to boot my virtual machine, XP gave me the black screen of
death with the option to repair from my XP CD. Of course, I don't have
an XP CD, since it did not come in the VPC package (although my old VPC
versions 1 and 2 from Connectix did have the actual Windows CD packaged
with them...).
My question is this: what does Microsoft expect users to do when this
happens? Do they feel that XP is so perfect that it will never become
corrupted and thus no XP CD is needed to conduct repairs? Of course,
then I have to wonder why they include repair capabilities on the XP CD
at all...
Is the only option to actually purchase a separate copy of XP on CD?
Then why include it bundled into VPC in the first place?
What I ended up doing was to create a new Virtual Machine and snag the
drive from the old VM and make it Drive E on the new machine. To figure
this out took hours of searching this newgroup to find out, by reading
oodles of postings, how to even find the location of the drive on the
old (nonworking) VM. Of course, I still had to reinstall software on
the new VM and the whole process took hours and involved a whole
heckuva lot of cussing...
Was my approach the best one? I'm thinking I might end up with a
gazillion virtual machines down the road... And I have to wonder how
someone on a relatively novice level of both Mac and Windows usage
would ever be able to handle this problem.
It seems to me that when a novice user runs across this problem, they
will have to shell out $35 for a phone support call which may or may
not be helpful (according to what I'm reading in this group) and then
they'd have to shell out another $199 to buy an XP CD, then they'd have
to figure out how to capture the XP CD in order to run the repair
routine (and I'm wondering if this would even work since the Product
Keys are different) and now they've spent over $200 in additional money
just to get their VPC working again and yadayadayada...
All answers would be appreciated and I would be glad to give credit to
helpful folks in the article itself, along with a copy of the magazine
in which the article will be running...
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