Virtual Pc 7.02 And Tiger 10.4.2

murphyj44 · #1 August 9th, 2005, 02:30 PM

I upgraded from VPC 6 with Windows 2000 installed separately by me to VPC 7.02 ( ( bought the Upgrade from Apple and I had my own Windows 2000. ) VPC 7.02 works fine with Windows 2000. Now I want to install my own copy of Windows XP Professional. This disk boots fine on a PC but I cannot get it to boot on my IMac G5 with VPC 7.02 and System 10.4.2. ( It would also not boot with Panther.) I never get to the screen that says "Press any key to boot." I just get a small bliking dash and "OS not found" never leaves. I have tried resetting the PC but I just get the blinking dash. I also tried to get the Windows XP CD to boot on my Powerbook G4 800 MHz machine with OS 10.2.8 and VPC 6.1.1.

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated.

MisterMe · #2 August 9th, 2005, 06:40 PM

Which disk does not boot? What kind of disk is it?

murphyj44 · #3 August 9th, 2005, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MisterMe

Which disk does not boot? What kind of disk is it?

The Windows XP disk will not boot. It is on a CD-R provided by my school which has a Microsoft license.

sdlmd · #4 August 9th, 2005, 11:20 PM

Your Mac won't boot from a Windows install CD/DVD. Until it is running Virtual PC under OS X, the Mac's hardware doesn't recognize Windows. There's got to be another way to do it, from within Virtual PC. I would bet that, somewhere in the documentation, Virtual PC will tell you how to upgrade Windows. If not, you'll have to contact Microsoft tech support, unless someone here knows the drill. Good luck.

Zammy-Sam · #5 August 10th, 2005, 06:53 AM

If the CD-R is bootable, as you said, there are only two things I can think of: Your mac can't mount the CD or virtualpc options on boot devices are not set to CD too.
Insert the CD into your mac while VirtualPC is running. Check if the CD is properly mounted on your mac. Open and browse the files. If everything is fine go to VirtualPC and mount the CD over there too. Check the options if there is anything preventing CD-boot. Hope this will help somehow..

murphyj44 · #6 August 11th, 2005, 12:53 PM

The Windows CD mounts on the Mac Desktop. I can capture the image on Virtual PC. I don't know what options to check in Virtual PC to figure out why the Windows XP disk will not boot in Virtual PC. I also don't know what files to check for on Windows XP CD.

Zammy-Sam · #7 August 12th, 2005, 04:50 AM

Did you use the assistent for a new os? You will need to specify which windows version you are going to install. Also: does the CD spin at all once you boot? If it would try to access it and it fails, this might be due to a bad media (I find apple drives quite picky on writeable media) or a corrupt file. Did you ever test with your Win2000 CD? It obviously worked before..

murphyj44 · #8 August 12th, 2005, 09:09 AM

The Windows 2000 CD works fine. The XP CD does spin but fails. I have followed the instructions very carefully many times and used the assistant. Maybe it is a bad CD, but it will boot up under Windows 2000 inside Virtual PC.