Clone to Virtual PC problem

[Steve Gr]

Hi,

I've used Ghost to make an image of an XP machine. I've cloned this image to
a Virtual PC using MS Virtual PC 2007.
When the Virtual PC starts up, I get a blue screen, too fast to read what's
on it, before it reboots. It then gives me options to restart into safe
mode, etc, but they all have the same result, a blue screen and reboot.

I've booted the virtual pc from an xp cd and run a chkdsk /r from the
recovery console, but that made no difference. I suspect the root of the
problem is that there's a major hardware difference between the original xp
machine and the new virtual machine. But how do I reconcile these?

Has anyone any ideas to help?

Thanks,
SW

 

[Guest]

When you "ghost" xp or use xps "XCOPY" to mirror a hd,the drive is set-up
to run on the same machine,moving the drive to another wont work...

 

[Steve Gr]

When you "ghost" xp or use xps "XCOPY" to mirror a hd,the drive is set-up
to run on the same machine,moving the drive to another wont work...

You're right, but I did manage to get around it by doing a repair reinstall
of Windows. That kept all my settings and apps and documents etc.

Regards,
SW