From: "Geo" 

You are saying it won't work with the virtualized hard drive, it requires a
real partition of it's own? What the heck is it doing to the hard drive
that requires that? Previous builds worked fine with a virtualized HD.

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> I don't run it under vmware, I run it under VPC, but the problem is Vista,
> not the emulation layer.  You need to partition the virtual hard drive
> before you start the install.  You either partition it with some other OS,
> or partition it with the Vista install, then when you get past that point,
> reboot and start the install again and it should work fine.
>
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> Bob Comer  elements...>
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > Has anyone here managed to load vista build 5270 into a vmware virtual
> > machine? I manage to get it started, and it goes past the point where it
> > starts the automatic part of the install actually copying files to the
> > hard
> > drive but then it aborts with a fatal error about copying a file.
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> >
>
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