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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / April 2007XP update/restart fails under VirtualPC
My VirtualPC 7/Windows XP Pro has been running without problems for about a year on an iMac (PowerPC, OSX 10.4.8). The other day the XP started updating itself and then went into restart. The restart failed flashing an error message (bad image checksum) and going back to restart, failing and restarting endlessly. Any efforts to shutdown and restart with any of the options available result in going around the same loop. Can anyone help: is there anything I can try aside from uninstalling/ reinstalling VirtualPC and XP with all applications? On Apr 5, 5:29 am, jmha...@fastmail.fm wrote: > My VirtualPC 7/Windows XP Pro has been running without problems for > about a year on an iMac (PowerPC, OSX 10.4.8). The other day the XP [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Can anyone help: is there anything I can try aside from uninstalling/ > reinstalling VirtualPC and XP with all applications? If you installed XP from it's own retail CD, you could try a Repair install. If you installed XP from the Virtual PC bundle package, there is no alternative but to create a new virtual machine. The same thing happened to me! I was able to "Capture the Disc" using a different XP Pro installer and boot from the CD, and had hope until it asked for the Automated System Recovery Floppy! It seems this is not going to be possible: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299526 That was a waste of a day's work! On Apr 11, 4:04 pm, rich.bat...@gmail.com wrote: > The same thing happened to me! I was able to "Capture the Disc" using > a different XP Pro installer and boot from the CD, and had hope until [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > That was a waste of a day's work! A Repair Install has nothing to do with System Recovery. Different procedures entirely and would not help at all for this problem >The same thing happened to me! I was able to "Capture the Disc" using >a different XP Pro installer and boot from the CD, and had hope until [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >That was a waste of a day's work! You could a repair installation instead, it's the 2nd repair option if you skip ASR. It will reinstall your Windows...BUT, you might have problems with your Windows serial number. ----------- ---- --- -- - - - - Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ Couldn't the OP try Last Known Good Configuration? > On Apr 5, 5:29 am, jmha...@fastmail.fm wrote: >> My VirtualPC 7/Windows XP Pro has been running without problems for [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > install. If you installed XP from the Virtual PC bundle package, there > is no alternative but to create a new virtual machine. > Couldn't the OP try Last Known Good Configuration? > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > - Show quoted text - No. The problem here is that the OP is using an OEM version of Windows (probably from an IBM or Gateway PC). It would ask for a floppy disk to start a Recovery process. There is no other option to go to LKGC or Safe Mode or even a DOS prompt. |
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