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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / October 2005Missing data
I have an unusual problem that occured after I did a force quit (spinning beachball). I have PB 1.25 and have been running VPC 7.0.2/Windows 2000Professional. When I rebooted the PB everything on the Mac side seemd to be working fine, however on of the guys on my crew asked to use my computer to look up some info in the companies Access database. He is a Mac user and knows how to start VPC, when he started the app a dialoge box came up and he clicked okay, I was out of the room at the time. What he was presented with was a DOS page and that was that. I was able to navigate out out of the page and eventually Windows started up. Everything was going along until it got to the part where tha administrators password needs to be entered and there was no no response from the keyboard, reminded me of when I first upgraded to VPC 7. So I quit VPC and logged out the Mac and when it restarted and I entered my password and then relaunched VPC. This time I was able to enter my password and Windows 2000 started up. I was prompted to do the updates and additions which I did. When the desktop finally appeared it looked as it had except that an icon to a ordering database I use was missing. Also when I opened up the company Access database entries for the past year were gone( this is backed up and can be restored). But there is no trace of the missing ordering database. So does anyone out there have any idea what happened and is this stuff just simply gone? Also is there anyway to bypass the DOS screen that comes up when I try to launch VPC. If there is ant additional info anyone needs, just ask. Thanks >I have an unusual problem that occured after I did a force quit >(spinning beachball). I have PB 1.25 and have been running VPC [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >anyone needs, just ask. >Thanks Are you using Undo Drives? What DOS screen are you referring to? What text is displayed?  SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://www.essjae.com/vpc/vpc.htm "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. I am not am employee of Microsoft." The DOS screen which came up displayed the following text- The AMBIOS (c) 2001 American Megatrends BIOS Date: 8/14/03 19:14:02 Version 08.00.02 Press DEL to run Setup Checking NVRAM 512MB OK Auto Detecting Pri Master..IDE Hard drive Auto Detecting Pri Slave..Not Detected Auto Detecting Sec Master..CDROM Auto Detecting Sec Slave Not Detected Pri Master: 1.1 Virtual AD Pri Master: Virtual CD CMOS Checksum Bad CMOS Date/Time Not Set Press F1 to Run Setup Press F2 to Load Default Values and Continue The first time after starting after the logout I pressed the fn key and the F2 key and got another DOS page, which I don't remember what it said but I was able to get to the start up page and then log in. That's when I noticed that the desktop was missing some icons. So I shut down windows and quit VPC. The dialog book which came up at the end of the process has 3 options about saving changes or not. I have always had the 3rd option selected, which is to carry forward undoable changes. The next time I shut down and restarted VPC I got the same DOS screen but this time hit the F1 key and Windows started right up without the second DOS window. And still the data is missing. It strikes me as weird that Access database that I now have is a year and half old and that I had most likely trashed it during monthly updates over the past 18 months. If the data is gone then it's gone. It's a mystery though how the data just seems to have vanished. >The DOS screen which came up displayed the following text- >The AMBIOS (c) 2001 American Megatrends [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >updates over the past 18 months. If the data is gone then it's gone. >It's a mystery though how the data just seems to have vanished. it sounds like the undo drive contents were corrupted, and since you never merged with the drive, all the changes that were made since the last merge (18 months ago?) were lost. SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://www.essjae.com/vpc/vpc.htm "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. I am not am employee of Microsoft." |
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