I have a disk image I'm trying to run in Live View. It's from a dual boot XP/Linux machine, but the linux partition was on a separate drive which I don't have an image of. So when Live View boots the image, I get an error in Grub (error 21) and it won't let me select the Windows partition to boot up, since the Linux one isn't there. I don't have an image of the other drive. Is there a way around the Grub loader to go ahead and boot the Win part, or must I also have an image of the Linux partition from the other drive?
KP
If you can create a partition only image of your WinXP installatiion, you should be able to use either LiveView or VFC (available as a fully working 30 day demo) to re-create the mbr and boot the image.
HTH
Put a Windows XP CD in and boot the VM from that (or point the CD drive at a Windows ISO).
Select Recovery mode.
Assuming you know the administrator password, enter it when prompted and then run
fixmbr
fixboot
Reboot and it should boot into Windows for you.
If you haven't got the administrator password then you'll need something like this
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Thanks for the advice!
@ Mickpen I can go back and do an image of the Windows partition only, but was hoping to not have to do that. However, that is a possibility.
@cymru100 I may try that with an XP cd. I'm very new to vm's and Live View and that sounds interesting. I'll report back how it turns out when I get time.
Thanks to both of you!
KP