If it still doesn't work, load thehive back into your hex editor and have another go. You'll need to re-activate WindowsXP due to the huge change in hardware, but this should be relativelypainless — if you enable a network adapter in the VMconfiguration then Windows can access the internet through your host'sconnection seamlessly. Once that's done you can proceed with installthe VirtualBox guest additions to make it easier to work with the VM— mouse pointer integration, sensible screen resolutions, sharedfolders and so forth.
Was it quicker than installing everything from scratch? Possibly: Ihad a lot of software installed. It was certainly a lot moretouch-and-go, and it was a bit scary patching the registry hive in ahex editor. It was quite fun though, and it felt good to get itworking. Submit to Reddit Submit to DZone. You can also subscribe to this blog by email using the form on the left.
As long as i had no usb drive, i followed the next procedure which worked like a charm. Acronis True image boot CD, b. I went through the steps you did and also could not get past the 'mup. Select update, don't have the OS search, tell it you have your own driver, then it will give you a dialog where you can select the standard IDE driver.
Save that, reboot, then reimage the drive, convert the image to a. It then worked on first boot in VirtualBox! I did not have to reinstall or even do a repair install, hooray. To do this, turn the laptop on and press F8 as it is booting up. Go into 'Safe Mode' by choosing the 'Safe Mode' option. It is case sensitive as far as I know. It should be noted that most of these problems have to do with problems moving windows to new hardware, not the cloning process itself.
The same problems face those trying to move an existing physical windows disk to a new physical computer. Good morning, I used to work for a college and was in charge of getting the same image to work across any system we could throw at it.
Perhaps the most difficult operations where moving Windows Server installations from high end server-class hardware down to conventional desktop machines. There where quite significant hardware variances between them. I have three options that come to mind as possibly less involved operations, depending on a reader's situation. I know using sysprep or similar tool was probably out for you since you couldn't boot into Windows, so I won't spend any time on that.
Restore this back up on top of your fresh installation. You want to select that option. Boot up, worked a solid 9 out of 10 times for me. You would perform the following onto your OLD installation or your newly imported disk image :. Again, of course you don't have access to the old Windows in a running state. You've got solid linux experience, so the following shouldn't be too scary: Mount your imported disk image using the loopback device, copy the driver files into it, then, mount the old SYSTEM hive temporarily into your new Windows installation, and apply the patch that way.
And it is easier than it sounds! VMWare Converter might be able to do it too. Also VirtualBox has a cool option where you can create a VMDK file that is simply a reference to your external disk, thus you could run it from your real external disk!
It's always of course better to use or have backup, but the option is available. I'm attempting to do a Windows to Linux howto and am scouring for ways for the average user to do this with their existing PC with a native WinXP installed..
Remember firstly click USB drive at the right-bottom side to connect from host, because USB flash drive is usually connected to host but not virtual machine b default. Move to Boot option, and use arrow key to choose boot device USB drive. Now it is set as a hard disk, so please expand the hard disk and choose the USB disk from it. Note: The steps may be different if you use another virtual machine software, but not VMware virtual machine. This article was helpful.
Select a virtual disk type: Recommended. Use a physical disk for advanced users. If you need to download the software again, you can go to your Download Purchase History in your Microsoft Store account and access the download there. Home and Professional editions were released together but for different purposes. Home edition of Windows XP was launched for general computing at home level use. The core operating system of Home and Professional is same, but only features are different. Home edition is quite suitable for people who only use computer for time pass and entertainment.
Windows XP Home edition has all important features of an advanced operating system except a few professional level features; such as EFS Encrypted File Systems , offline files, backup program, remote control, IIS, etc.
These features are available in Professional edition. Windows XP was the game changer operating system by Microsoft. XP just stormed the world of desktop computers and left the competitors Mac and Linux far behind in the race of best OS for desktop. The beauty and stability were the leading features of it. XP was a true innovative OS which introduced tons of new features. Windows XP is so useful that it has still a lot of users in If you use computer for very basic things or have an old PC which does not work properly with Windows 7 or Windows 10, you can try Windows XP.
It is lightweight, faster and consumes far less disk space, memory and CPU than other operating systems. It has almost all features and can run most software which are usually needed.
It only occupies less than 2 GB after installation and the size of system drive does not increase automatically like Windows 7 or Windows This is an ideal operating system for kids who watch videos and play games most of time. You can play all classic games which are not supported by Windows 7 or Windows For multimedia playback, all you need is download and install VLC Media Player for XP and your home cinema is ready out of your old, nearly useless machine.
Numerous performance improvements are applied by default and if you are not satisfied with performance, there is room for further XP tweaks.
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