Comments on: How-To: Use your existing Windows Installation in Ubuntu http://www.alexhutnik.com/2007/05/31/how-to-use-your-existing-windows-installation-in-ubuntu/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex A. Hutnik http://www.alexhutnik.com/2007/05/31/how-to-use-your-existing-windows-installation-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Alex A. Hutnik Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:57:27 +0000 http://www.alexhutnik.com/2007/05/31/how-to-use-your-existing-windows-installation-in-ubuntu/#comment-80 Hmmm I'm afraid not. There could be any number of issues. Are you going from an XP 64-bit to a virtual 32-bit environment? What about your boot config on the actual windows drive? Is that drive read-only? Is it NTFS but mounted read-only because perhaps you aren't using ntfs-3g? That's all I've got. Hmmm I’m afraid not. There could be any number of issues. Are you going from an XP 64-bit to a virtual 32-bit environment? What about your boot config on the actual windows drive? Is that drive read-only? Is it NTFS but mounted read-only because perhaps you aren’t using ntfs-3g?

That’s all I’ve got.

]]> By: Jason http://www.alexhutnik.com/2007/05/31/how-to-use-your-existing-windows-installation-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Jason Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:04:55 +0000 http://www.alexhutnik.com/2007/05/31/how-to-use-your-existing-windows-installation-in-ubuntu/#comment-79 I tried this setup, and even tried a ton of trouble-shooting methods from here: http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/ and i continue to get Error 0x7B on startup (as in the windows logo pops up and then blue screen with the error and the virtual machine restarts) i'm running two SATA harddrives, gentoo linux installed on sda and windows xp pro on sdb. any suggestions on how to get this to work? I tried this setup, and even tried a ton of trouble-shooting methods from here: http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/ and i continue to get Error 0x7B on startup (as in the windows logo pops up and then blue screen with the error and the virtual machine restarts)

i’m running two SATA harddrives, gentoo linux installed on sda and windows xp pro on sdb.

any suggestions on how to get this to work?

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