Comments on: Virtual PC and Floppy Images

By: Shawn Holwegner

Shawn Holwegner — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:29:05 +0000

Wow, I stumbled across this looking for the proper name for floppies – to make it accept them. It didn’t like .img, and I was getting annoyed.

Matt, if you’re still looking (after, oh, six months), try ejecting any floppy or CDs (or images). If you are really quick, you can hit ‘F1′ to get into MrBIOS. I do not believe that it actually saves settings, but there is a possibility that it may have become confused – or corrupt somehow.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:30:57 +0000

Paco,
I have a retail copy of Virtual PC 7 for Mac. Program installed fine, but it will not load from my copy of Windows ME. Keeps saying no OS installed. Talked with Microsoft. They said download a startup floppy image from the web. Did that. Used VPC to create virtual floppy drive. Attached it. Now, when VPC starts, to try to install, it says, “No System Disk or bad disk” something to that effect. Is there any legal image that will start my system up? I’ve got licensed copies of VPC 7 and Windows ME, but can’t get VPC to install it?

By: Paco Hope

Paco Hope — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:50:37 +0000

If you want to run Windows on your Virtual PC, you need a valid and legal license. Any CD that you buy from any store will work. I have, for example, a Windows Me CD that I used to use on an old PC. I decommissioned the PC (it runs OpenBSD now) and now I use that license in Virtual PC. Just insert the CD in your CD drive and start up a new Virtual PC. It will boot from the CD and you’re off to the races.

If you want images so that you don’t have to buy windows, you’re trying to break the law. I don’t support that. Go look for warez sites where people routinely break the law.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:09:50 +0000

after searching google for disk images for virtual pc i came across this. You seem to know abit about it so where could I get some disk images so I can run windows on my virtual pc.

thanks

By: Matthijs Dalhuijsen

Matthijs Dalhuijsen — Sat, 22 May 2004 01:48:21 +0000

thnx! so that’s why they didn’t work…..
finally

your blog entry just made it into mine

cheers!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:39:25 +0000

Thanks so much! Now I can use my old MS-DOS floppies and images made on the pc to play even older games… It’s cool!