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Thanks guys, I'll use VMware Converter, then run it with VirtualBox.

Edit: VMware Converter says it'll only work with WMware products, so we'll see. I'm following this video tutorial.

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Stage 1: Selected 'This local machine'
Stage 2: Chose "VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine" then chose the location as C:\ (XP)

Stage 3: [see below]

[Image: behe3l.jpg]

It's selected all of them for some reason, do I just select C: ?

C: = Windows XP [1]
F: = Downloads [1]
H: = Ubuntu [1]
G: = Windows 7 (Current) [2]

[1] = Maxtor hard drive
[2] = Samsung hard drive


If I unselect G: I get..

[Image: qFN22.png]

Am I meant to boot into XP then use the converter on that?

This post was edited on 03-02-2010 at 03:32 PM by Chris4.
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Existing XP partition in virtual machine? - by Chris4 on 02-28-2010 at 11:01 PM
RE: Existing XP partition in virtual machine? - by matty on 02-28-2010 at 11:09 PM
RE: Existing XP partition in virtual machine? - by Mike on 02-28-2010 at 11:21 PM
RE: Existing XP partition in virtual machine? - by lizard.boy on 03-02-2010 at 03:54 AM
RE: Existing XP partition in virtual machine? - by Menthix on 03-02-2010 at 10:43 AM
RE: Existing XP partition in virtual machine? - by Chris4 on 03-02-2010 at 12:55 PM
RE: Existing XP partition in virtual machine? - by Menthix on 03-02-2010 at 01:49 PM


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