Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2005

One very frequent questions seems to be, why Virtual PC feels slower
than the speed that is reported by the system or some tools. So I
thought I'd try to give an a three part answer to that mystery.
1. Fixed reported speed:

When I start my VPC 7/Pro XP a floppy drive shows up as 3.5 Floppy (A:)
then when I add a USB macally 3.5 Floppy it places it in the B:
position.
How can I have my macally USB 3.5 Floppy at the A: position?  I tried

Upgrading to an Apple Cinema HD 30" monitor crashes VPC 7 with the
following message:
NTLDR Fatal Error: error  2592 cannot read boot.ini
I've a 2.5Ghz G5, an NVIDIA 6800 Ultra card (which worked just fine w

Has anyone tried to install Norton AV 2005 on VPC7?
I did and it will not open.
Oldvike

VPC 7.01, XP Home, Mac G5 Dual 2.0, 10.3.7, shared networking with my
DSL. It works pretty well. I can download pretty fast, and most web
sites come up in decent time. However, two questions.
This came with Service Pack 2, so the MS firewall is enabled. But so is

When trying to start VPC 6.1.1 on my Mac (running OS X 10.3.7), I get
the following error message:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing      
or corrupt:                                                        

Hey Everyone!
Has anyone installed the VPC7 UPGRADE with VPC5 w/DOS? I see where
others have used VPC6 FULL as the platform from which to upgrade, but I
only have VPC6 UPGRADE and VPC5 FULL w/DOS. Unfortunately I've allready

Upgrading to an Apple Cinema HD 30" monitor crashes VPC 7 with the
following message:
NTLDR Fatal Error: error  2592 cannot read boot.ini
I've a 2.5Ghz G5, an NVIDIA 6800 Ultra card (which worked just fine w

The VPC 7 box has two CDs called Installation CD and CD2. There is also
a third CD called additional "Windows System Files", which I do not
appear to have needed. I put it in the drive but nothing happened.
Anyone know what it is for or how to use it.