Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac

Use Qemu-img.exe to convert the VHD to a VDI and run it through VirtualBox

http//www.virtualbox.org/

although, you might still have problems running a PPC image on a Intel machine.

Use Qemu-img.exe to convert the VHD to a VDI and run it through VirtualBox

http//www.virtualbox.org/

although, you might still have problems running a PPC image on a Intel machine.

Why not to RAW and run on Qemu directly?

Qemu does have Power PC emulation (though I don't think it wil run MacOS).

PearPC should
http//pearpc.sourceforge.net/
(though most probably very, very slowly)

But I am missing a step.

@markl1975

The (crashed) G5 ran Virtual PC under a MacOS, right?

Since AFAIK Virtual PC is a x86 emulator, the OS inside the Virtual PC was an x86 one, which one?

I mean, the actual .vhd is just a format of a hard disk image, like many others, do you want to boot that image or just recover data from within it?

If you clarify the situation there may be other ways/methods.

jaclaz

Thanks for the pointers so far.

The guy was running a Windows XP image within the Virtual PC environment. I would like to recover some files from within the image if possible, however it might be easier to mount the .vhd file and copy the files out.

If there's a way of recovering the files without mounting I'd be interested to hear it.

Many thanks,

Mark

Do you have EnCase? If you drag the .vhd in there it will just interpret the file system automatically for you, reading it like a logical volume, from there you can pull out any files you like. )

Thanks for the pointers so far.

If there's a way of recovering the files without mounting I'd be interested to hear it.

You can try converting the vhd to RAW.

This is one way
http//erwan.l.free.fr/clonedisk/body.html
http//www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8480
you might need (depending on the original .vhd type) to change it's type (from dynamic to fixed size)
http//vmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspx

jaclaz

I would like to recover some files from within the image if possible, however it might be easier to mount the .vhd file and copy the files out.

Since this is all you are wanting to do, why not just recover the image from the hard drive, and mount it in a Windows version of Virtual PC? The fact that it is from a Mac shouldn't matter (except for extracting the .vhd from the hard drive, I think you'd need a Power PC Mac for that, if I understand your posts), though I could be wildly wrong.

Since it is .vhd, you could also extract the file from the Mac hard drive and then mount it in Windows 7. That can read .vhd as well if I am not mistaken.

If I am wrong, please correct me.

Thanks for all the pointers. I was worrying over nothing really as it was easier than I thought it was going to be.

I extracted the .vpc7 file (not .vhd as I previously thought) from the PPC Mac drive.

I copied this to my MacBook Pro, running VMWare Fusion, and used the import facility to import the image and open it on my Mac. I could then copy out the files I needed.

I should have tried all this before I panic-posted on the forum!

Cheers,

Mark