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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / February 2008CD will not run in VPC 7.0.3
With VPC 7.0.3, an actual, official Windows cd will not Autostart or is accessable if you click on the CD/DVD icon in the 'C' drive My Computer window. I was able to load Windows software onto this iMac running VPC, but it was a couple years back. Need assistance. Thanks Sounds like you are using the XP CD that came with VPC and not the Mac VPC Install CD. My version of VPC with XP came with 2 CDs. One was a full MS XP CD without the installer and the other was the VPC Mac install CD with the XP pre-installed in the virtual hard drive. You need to use the other CD that has the Mac VPC program on it and do the install from there in Mac OSX. On 2/2/08 2:57 AM, in article ee8bc3d.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > With VPC 7.0.3, an actual, official Windows cd will not Autostart or is > accessable if you click on the CD/DVD icon in the 'C' drive My Computer > window. I was able to load Windows software onto this iMac running VPC, but it > was a couple years back. Need assistance. Thanks Re: CD will not run in VPC 7.0.3Shouldn't the OP be able to install a retail copy of XP just fine? Why not? VPC was available without a bundled Windows for just that reason. I suspect that the OP just needs to make an .iso file from the cd and mount that with the emulated drive. Sounds like you are using the XP CD that came with VPC and not the Mac VPC Install CD. My version of VPC with XP came with 2 CDs. One was a full MS XP CD without the installer and the other was the VPC Mac install CD with the XP pre-installed in the virtual hard drive. You need to use the other CD that has the Mac VPC program on it and do the install from there in Mac OSX. On 2/2/08 2:57 AM, in article ee8bc3d.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "tquintana@officeformac.com" <tquintana@officeformac.com> wrote: With VPC 7.0.3, an actual, official Windows cd will not Autostart or is accessable if you click on the CD/DVD icon in the 'C' drive My Computer window. I was able to load Windows software onto this iMac running VPC, but it was a couple years back. Need assistance. Thanks If he has a Retail version of XP it will install fine. The version of XP that came bundled with my version of VPC was an OEM without any booting capability. You could install it but a version of Windows had to be installed first. Which is why it¹s just so much easier to use the Virtual drive from the OSX install. On 2/2/08 6:21 PM, in article D591F87A-F0F6-43C0-B433-0924C1E488C5@microsoft.com, "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote: > Shouldn't the OP be able to install a retail copy of XP just fine? Why not? > VPC was available without a bundled Windows for just that reason. I suspect [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>> window. I was able to load Windows software onto this iMac running VPC, but >>> it was a couple years back. Need assistance. Thanks Thank you all for the responses.. I need to update my problem. I was able to successfully install both CDs from the VPC package. The Windows XP environment is working fine and I have been able to run the Microsoft Update to bring VPC 7.0.3 XP Pro completely up-t-date. But I need a program from Office XP Pro that I have also. When I place the original, authentic Office XP Pro disc into the drive of my computer, it will acknowledge that the disc is in the drive, but it won't AutoStart as it should; and if you go into the 'C' drive window and double click on the icon, you receive a message saying "Windows cannot read from the disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows". Now this is a authentic Windows CD. I am able to play a music CD no problem. Other PC application CDs receive the same message. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Like in my previous posting the Windows XP CD that comes with VPC is NOT bootable or autostart. It is complete in every other respect though. If you need files or instal stuff from the CD it is otherwise identical to a Windows OEM XP CD. On 2/3/08 1:32 PM, in article ee8bc3d.3@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Thank you all for the responses.. I need to update my problem. I was able to > successfully install both CDs from the VPC package. The Windows XP environment [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you > Like in my previous posting the Windows XP CD that comes with VPC is NOT > bootable or autostart. It is complete in every other respect though. If [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Whoa Fred, Need to read his post again, my friend. He already has VPC and Windows installed. He's trying to install something from the Office XP disk. I suspect that he's running VPC under Leopard and it's not recognizing or reading the disk drive. He will need to create an iso image of the Office XP disk in order to access it from Windows. True CD/DVD drive access no longer works under Leopard. But also true is my XP Pro OEM CD that came with my VPC 6 XP Pack is not bootable either. From his post though if he can read the CD it does not sound like he is running Leopard. On 2/6/08 1:10 PM, in article bac7da8c-cfcc-4e6b-9df0-7db9e3fca45a@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com, "Paul Power" <paulkpower@gmail.com> wrote: >> Like in my previous posting the Windows XP CD that comes with VPC is NOT >> bootable or autostart. It is complete in every other respect though. If [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > or reading the disk drive. He will need to create an iso image of the > Office XP disk in order to access it from Windows. > True CD/DVD drive access no longer works under Leopard. But also true is my > XP Pro OEM CD that came with my VPC 6 XP Pack is not bootable either. From [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > - Show quoted text - You're right. If it will read and install VPC and Windows XP, then the Mac OS is picking up the CD Drive and reading it. So, with the original (not burnt copy) Office XP in the drive. Go to Drives in the VPC menu bar and click on 'Capture Disk' |
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