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Evening. I've installed Windows XP as a guest OS on a real partition so that I would be able to dualboot to that install as well.

To the problem. I've used http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wi ... rgeIDE.zip to get around the BSOD problem when booting (hdd-problem). Now I can boot the OS in both Vbox and booting it for "real". I've got two hardware profiles (created directly after the install) and uses one for Vbox and the other for the dualboot. The problem is that sound doesn't work on the "real" boot (I don't hear the logon sound), keyboard and mouse doesn't work and probably a few other things (hard to test when you can't do anything).

Numlock and my mouse glows as they should when I boot but they don't work at all. Windows says it have found new hardware and wants to install the drivers but I can't do that without mouse/keyboard.

Is there some way to fix this problem so that I'll be able to use the same windows install dualbooting and using it in vbox?

The short answer is No, the hardware between situations differ too much and windows does not like that, you can try XP's hardware profiles, I've seen a tutorial about that, but once you boot into the wrong profile by accident you might as well start from scratch.