Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / June 2005

When I startup VPC, my virus detection software is giving me a message :
BaseDrive.fhd is corrupted. What is BaseDrive.vhd and how should i fix this
issue? TIA

I intend to install VP7 on a Powerbook G4 equipped with Tiger, in order
to run Lotus Notes. Has someone experienced this yet and have you met
any problems?
Thanx

Whenever I start up VPC 6, the VPC List window opens and then
automatically launches my main PC. How do I stop it from doing this? It
launches a PC before I have a chance to select another PC or to make a
duplicate of the one it just launched.

With VPC 5 and Windows 98 or Me it was fairly straightforward to use the
Windows backup utility to back up the entire contents of the virtual machine,
restore to another location, and use the restored contents to create a new
virtual machine. Has anyone been able to do this with ...

Hi Folks: I've been running VPC 7.0.1 for several months and printing to
an Epson just fine, however the VM Additions Printer icon has gone
missing for some reason. So I tried to install or update additions to
restore that function but goes to an uninstall mode. Is there any way ...

My VPC 7.0.1 main drive file has ballooned to over 12GB from the original
3GB or so when it was created.  I wish to try to reduce / compact this
image.  I also don't want or need the dynamically expanding option.
The Disk Assistant has the reclaim option, however it says I have to

Hi, I am thinking about buying an IBook and would like to be able to
play Ragnarok online on it using Virtual PC. I was wondering if any one
had any idea if it will run this program for me or not. If you have
never heard of ragnarok it is an mmorpg that is very simple and not

hey all,
Ok i've Purchased and installed VPC7 and I've installed windows 2000,
however  I need to access the network resources (shared folders) but the
additional tools icon just flashes and nothing happens .. i'm not a mac

I was unable to run a few programs on VPC 7 on my G5.  I called Support
and they confirmed that the programs weren't supported.  While I was
disappointed, I am able to get a refund.  There was no indication of
the VPC's limitaions on the box nor VPC homepage.  They have a 30 day

I'm trying to install my copy of Win98 SE into virtual PC running on my
iMac G5, but it (of course) doesn't have a floppy drive, and what's
more, I've lost my win98 startup disks.  Does anyone know what I can do
to get Win98 installed?

I have a serious problem installing any operating system (Me & 98 that
i've tried till now) other than XP, the whole VPC freezes including the
error report in the beginning of the installation not in the same place
every time, but they worked on a Panther while i was using it.

I inherited the afformentioned PowerMac from my brother and, like the title
says having a slow time of it running Windows 98 on my Virtual PC 2.1. It's
a PowerPC so I didn't think it would be this slow.
I'm running a 250MHz processor with 128MB ram.

I am having to reinstall VPC 701 from scratch after a logic board
upgrade. My VPC 701 is an upgrade, so I have to install the OS from a
separate CD. VPC apparently does not recognize any CD (the 'Choose'
button remains disabled) and so I am stuck. If I could find my VPC 6 CD

I wonder if anyone can help me.
IE has stopped working under VPC.
It has become EXCURUTIATINGLY slow, and never really finishes loading a
page.

I've just installed Office XP Pro (SP2) on my Mac under Virtual PC
(running Win XP Pro SP2). The problem I'm having is that when I try to
'activate' Office (by clicking 'Activate Product' in the programs menu
or from within one of the applications), the "Microsoft Office XP