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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2008can't backup my virtual pc file!
Hello all, I have been having a problem trying to move or backup my virtual pc file (v7.0.3) off of the hard drive on my PowerBook G4. I have lived with it up until now, but I am migrating to a new macbook and want to get the file over to the new MacBook so I can import it into Parallels. Any help and suggestions on what is going on would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, P.J. It might help to describe what the problem is, most of us aren't mind readers.  Signature---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 _________________________________________________________________________________ > Hello all, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > P.J. David B, My apologies. Every time I have tried to move/backup my virtual pc file (Windows XP Home.vpc7), I always encounter an error saying it's unable to complete the action, wether it is trying to use time machine in leopard, a 3nd party backup program (Carbon Copy), or just plain drag and drop onto an external drive or copy over a firewire network to the new computer. The error messages are varied depending on the program (one is that finder cannot complete the operation because some data could not be read or written (error code -36)), but the end result is the same. It doesn't seem to be able to read the file to move it off of the hard drive. On the flip side, I have been able to move it internally from my personal documents folder to the shared user folder and the file still works fine. Again, I am at a loss what to do next and don't know what other details to offer. Any help would be appreciated! Cheers, P.J. The destination drive how is it formatted and how large is the Windows XP Home.vpc7? Reason I ask is that if the external drive is formatted as FAT32 there is a 4Gig file size limit. A Mac OSX Extended drive the file size limit is much higher. On 1/22/08 9:15 PM, in article ee89fee.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > David B, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > P.J. Fred, All of the drive have been Mac OS extended drives. the file is a shade under 15GB. The actions seem to hang up at the 2.82GB point. Cheers, P.J. > Fred, <br><br>All of the drive have been Mac OS extended drives. the file is > a shade under 15GB. The actions seem to hang up at the 2.82GB point. > <br><br>Cheers, <br><br>P.J. Sounds to me like there may be a disk error at that point in the file. BTW, please post plain text, not HTML. SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > In article <ee89fe...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, P...@officeformac.com > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Arlington, MA > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** It really is a moot point. You are not permitted to use Windows from VPC in any environment outside of the VPC application. You will require a fully licensed version of Windows XP. If your copy of Windows came bundled with VPC you may not move it to Parallels. You must have a retail copy of Windows to do that. Hello all, I have been having a problem trying to move or backup my virtual pc file (v7.0.3) off of the hard drive on my PowerBook G4. I have lived with it up until now, but I am migrating to a new macbook and want to get the file over to the new MacBook so I can import it into Parallels. Any help and suggestions on what is going on would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, P.J. |
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