From: "Robert Comer" 

> You are saying it won't work with the virtualized hard drive, it requires
> a
> real partition of it's own?

No, just that Vista has a bug that doesn't allow it to partition the VHD
and then use it right away, you need a reboot in between.

>Previous builds worked fine with a virtualized HD.

This bug has been there for some time, I don't know how many builds, and it
does work with a virtual hard drive.

--
Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
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> 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
> news:43dd88a5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer > elements...>
>>
>>
>> "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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