[Solved] win7 and win10 images directly from Microsoft won't boot
Posted: 1. Feb 2019, 16:39
Microsoft gives these OS images for testing. I tried putting the address here but the forum won't let me put a address in my first post. Just google "free windows image for virtualbox" and it should be the first page.
I downloaded both the WIn10 and the Win7 with IE11. Both won't boot
Steps that I did:
1) click "new" machine in VB
2) use defaults until I get the "Hard Drive" screen
3) find the file from microsoft called "IE11 - Win7-disk001.vdmk"
4) continue with defaults
5) click "start" to launch the instance of Windows 7.
Then I get a black screen saying "Windows failed to start, this may be due to a recent hardware change"
It tries to repair the problem, then I get a message "windows cannot repair the problem"
*When I try it with the windows 10 image, then I get a bit of a different message but I think it's basically the same message.
OSX Mojave
VirtualBox 6.4
Do you have any suggestions?
Matt
I downloaded both the WIn10 and the Win7 with IE11. Both won't boot
Steps that I did:
1) click "new" machine in VB
2) use defaults until I get the "Hard Drive" screen
3) find the file from microsoft called "IE11 - Win7-disk001.vdmk"
4) continue with defaults
5) click "start" to launch the instance of Windows 7.
Then I get a black screen saying "Windows failed to start, this may be due to a recent hardware change"
It tries to repair the problem, then I get a message "windows cannot repair the problem"
*When I try it with the windows 10 image, then I get a bit of a different message but I think it's basically the same message.
OSX Mojave
VirtualBox 6.4
Do you have any suggestions?
Matt