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On 27/11/11 18:34, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, bad apple wrote:From what I recall, that wasn't the problem - the issue I had was starting Win2K on what's effectively different underlying hardware -as if I'd taken my disk out of the Dell and put it in an HP box (for exmaple) I have the original Win2K disk but it didn't help me then as it couldn't see the CD rom drive... I was just wondering if anything had improved at the hardware emulation stage to make this sort of migration easier... Cheers, Gordon
I had to import a Windows XP disk into a VM a couple of years ago. I wrote up my experience on my blog:
http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/general/importing-windows-into-virtualbox.htmlI suspect that importing Windows 2000 will be similar. Possibly easier, since Windows 2000 didn't have the same activation system as Windows XP.
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