Hi! Ed,

On Mon, 10 Feb 14, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> which one... mmm.  Probably my old P-III that died in October
 PQ>> 2010 (running Puppy 4.12), which got replaced by a new Dell in
 PQ>> November of that year.

 EV> Well Sir, if that P-III HDD didn't go Belly Up the Driver is probably
 EV> still on the drive.

I appreciate the 'sir' but I used to work for a living.  :)  Clerking for
our Dept. of Army for 24 years, and then clerking for the (state) Police a
little later for 12 years.

That PC had two HDDs (both formatted as Linux drives, BTW).  I replicated
the sizes when I re-created them and copied their contents for the vBox: a
40Gb boot drive and a 80Gb data drive (though it was bootable as well). 
So, one day the first drive was booting to a real PC and the next it was
booting a vBox PC.  Well... not really adjacent days; there was a month's
gap where I was using my Dell Latitude 2100 as a temp desktop, with an Acer
AL511 LCD monitor giving me a 1024x768 SVGA screen instead of the built-in
little thing.

 EV> Don't go looking, there are too many good things that you can do in
 EV> the limited time that the weather is still decent where you live.

Yep, we are blessed with a mild summer in our locale at present. 
Fortunately the harsh conditions are thousands of miles west & south of
us.  Thank you for your thoughts.

Cheers,
Paul.

... If it ain't broke, let me try...
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox