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by jbs30000
31. Oct 2010, 01:53
Forum: VirtualBox on Windows Hosts
Topic: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy
Replies: 3
Views: 1820

Re: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy

Nevermind. I see it now.
by jbs30000
31. Oct 2010, 01:52
Forum: VirtualBox on Windows Hosts
Topic: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy
Replies: 3
Views: 1820

Re: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy

I don't see how to add it.
by jbs30000
31. Oct 2010, 01:43
Forum: VirtualBox on Windows Hosts
Topic: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy
Replies: 3
Views: 1820

Virtualbox won't boot from floppy

I tried searching for this before posting, and so far most of what I find is for Linux users. My floppy drive works just fine on my host computer (PC, Windows 7 64 bit), but when I place a floppy in it and start up Virtualbox it doesn't even attempt to read from my floppy drive. And if I press f12 a...
by jbs30000
13. Sep 2010, 19:16
Forum: Using VirtualBox
Topic: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?
Replies: 9
Views: 2725

Re: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?

I gave a computer of mine to someone else, but took out the hard drive. I've been thinking that instead of putting it in a new computer It would be nice if I could put it in this one and then boot it from VirtualBox. Two points: First, if you no longer have the computer are you still entitled to us...
by jbs30000
13. Sep 2010, 19:14
Forum: Using VirtualBox
Topic: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?
Replies: 9
Views: 2725

Re: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?

I don't want to put a 20 gig vhd on my C drive, but I may have to. As you will have found by now, a 20GB drive is usually considerably smaller than that once converted to VHD. I suggest that you should next convert the VHD to VDI using CloneVDI before much time has passed. Why? I could give you the...
by jbs30000
13. Sep 2010, 07:37
Forum: Using VirtualBox
Topic: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?
Replies: 9
Views: 2725

Re: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?

Yeah. I did that. I made a vhd copy on my C drive, erased the old drive and am going to put the vhd file back on it. I'm still curious why the vmdk file didn't work right, but I guess it doesn't matter now.
by jbs30000
12. Sep 2010, 22:49
Forum: Using VirtualBox
Topic: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?
Replies: 9
Views: 2725

Re: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?

I don't want to put a 20 gig vhd on my C drive, but I may have to.

The hard drive has Windows Server 2003 on it and it freezes on booting. So when I tried to see what was wrong it turns out the drive is seen as being unallocated (so why Windows at least starts to load is a mystery).
by jbs30000
12. Sep 2010, 05:24
Forum: Using VirtualBox
Topic: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?
Replies: 9
Views: 2725

Re: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?

Doing a lot more Google searching I see it's referred to as raw hard disk access.
by jbs30000
11. Sep 2010, 23:39
Forum: Using VirtualBox
Topic: Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?
Replies: 9
Views: 2725

Is it possible to boot from a physical drive?

I'm sorry if this has been asked and answered before. I did some searching but didn't come up with anything. I gave a computer of mine to someone else, but took out the hard drive. I've been thinking that instead of putting it in a new computer It would be nice if I could put it in this one and then...