I am running Virtual PC 2004 on a Win XP Pro system. I
installed Win2000 without any problem, but Win98 has
humbled me :-( Since I am builing from scratch I was
able to try many different configurations (EX. WinXP
booting from the C: Drive using both NTFS and FAT32 and
booting from a different drive leaving the C: drive
formated with FAT32) I am using a Win98 boot disk in
drive A: and Win98 CD. I have also tried capturing a
Win98 ISO image and the A: Drive. I have tried setting
the hard drive as virtual and pointing it to the C: drive
as physical. The typical result has been that when I run
the virtual machine it boots from the A: drive, but
reports that there is no C: drive available on the
system. The ramdrive is created as the C: drive and the
CD rom is available. For a brief period of time, for
reasons unknown to me, The C: drive was visible. When I
started the Win 98 installaion it ran scandisk and
reported that every thing was okay, but when Win98 began
to install it reported a severe hard drive error and
stopped. At that time WinXP was booting from the F:
drive with an NTFS format.
I apologize for the length of this post, but since there
doesn't appear to be much documentation I thought it
would be best to give the details.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> I am running Virtual PC 2004 on a Win XP Pro system. I
> installed Win2000 without any problem, but Win98 has
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> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
You've forgotten to create a partition on the guest OS virtual hard drive by
the sound of it. This is something that the NT, 2000, and XP setups did for
you but which you always had to do yourself in Windows 95 & 98 and the like.
A quick read of this should help:
http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/vpcfaq/VPCFAQ6-InstallingGuestOS.html

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Tom - 31 Jan 2004 15:28 GMT
Thanks for your quick and accurate response. It did the
trick.
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>> I am running Virtual PC 2004 on a Win XP Pro system. I
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>A quick read of this should help:
>http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/vpcfaq/VPCFAQ6-InstallingGuestOS.html