[X4U] Virtual PC 7 Problem

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Sun Dec 19 19:43:09 PST 2004


>You're right, it is an annoying habit of VPC not to include the disk.  Sigh.
>But, hey - what to you want for $200 right?
>
>Anyway, I found this link on the VPC support newsgroup that might help you.
>
>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.windows/browse_thread/thread/4cd567
>aadc022e59/484c89596dd4af89?q=WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM&_done=%2Fgroups
>%3Fq%3DWINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM%26qt_s%3DSearch+Groups%26&_doneTitle=B
>ack+to+Search&&d#484c89596dd4af89

Thanks for the link, it pretty much confirms what I'd figured out 
earlier today, namely that my disk image is hopelessly corrupted. 
The disk I/O programming for VPC seems to really suck.  I've seen 
where if you try to download something using a application under VPC 
directly to a Mac folder mapped as a drive under VPC the data will be 
corrupted.  My latest problem occurred while I was trying to 
straighten up a bunch of data on the disk, and deleting what was no 
longer needed.  The end result is that it would appear VPC is 
worthless, and that I wasted a lot of money that I could have better 
spent elsewhere.

			Zane

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