VPC 7.0.2 - was fine, now can't see OS

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barbarajsmith@gmail.com - 16 Apr 2007 04:06 GMT

I've been running VPC fine for a 4+years. I've had VPC 7 on this
particular machine (Powerbook G4 17") for over a year without
problems. I had VIrtual PC open with a few applications running and
moved over to the Mac side to work on something different. I left it
overnight like that (which I do ALL THE TIME) and came back and I have
a black screen with "OS NOT FOUND" on it. I can still see my PC file
(Windows XP Professional) in my documents - 12.8 gig, but I can't get
it to boot! I've shut down, restarted, everything but no luck. I'm
in the process of making a copy of my PC file and then will monkey
with reinstalling the OS, but my biggest concern is the stuff (apps
and files) that I'm losing. I do have a backup but there is two solid
days of work on it that I'll lose.

Has anyone had this problem, any advice on how to restore from the PC
file?

Thanks in advance, BJS

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Paul Power - 17 Apr 2007 00:41 GMT

On Apr 16, 12:06 am, barbarajsm...@gmail.com wrote:

> I've been running VPC fine for a 4+years. I've had VPC 7 on this
> particular machine (Powerbook G4 17") for over a year without
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>
> Thanks in advance, BJS

The problem you describe usually happens when you are logged into your
Mac OS with the wrong user account.

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barbarajsmith@gmail.com - 17 Apr 2007 19:09 GMT

I only have one account on my machine, BUT last week I had to
reinstall my Mac OS. In doing so, I set up my new user account, but
it's not identical to the old one (i.e. Barbara Smith vs Barb
Smith). What throws me here is that I was able to successfully copy
over my VPC files from backup and once I reinstalled VPC, EVERYTHING
remained the same when I launched the app for the first time . . . my
open apps from the previously saved state were still there and
everything. I was able to work in that environment for a few days
before this happened.

Does it periodically check and compare account information and I was
able to slide for a few days before I caught it?

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Paul Power - 18 Apr 2007 00:05 GMT

On Apr 17, 3:09 pm, barbarajsm...@gmail.com wrote:

> I only have one account on my machine, BUT last week I had to
> reinstall my Mac OS. In doing so, I set up my new user account, but
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> Does it periodically check and compare account information and I was
> able to slide for a few days before I caught it?

I'm not sure WHY you would be able to run everything normally after
creating the new user account. It shouldn't happen.

Anyway, Virtual PC looks for Windows in a very specific location and
uses that info to populate the Virtual PC List window. Look under your
username, then go to Documents and you will find the Virtual PC list
folder. Windows MUST be located in that folder OR you can have an
alias in there pointing to where Windows actually is.

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VPC 7.0.2 - was fine, now can't see OS