access usb thumb drive windows 98 virtual box

I don't think the thumb drive approach would work as neither VirtualPC nor VirtualBox support booting from (real or virtual) USB devices as far as I'm aware.Īnother approach is to download GParted, set up a new VM (no need to install an OS), attach your VHD to it then boot it from the GParted CD image. At the very least you could get the new VM to run checkdisk on it. That might work and let you run the app from the second disk. You can attach more than one VHD to a virtual machine so you could create a new VM, install XP or 98 on it then attach your original VHD as a second disk. I think that Disk2VHD has marked the virtual drive as being attached to a USB controller (since that's how it was attached when you converted it) but VirtualPC is trying to boot from an IDE controller. For example, if you switch your IDE disk from Master to Slave you can get this error. The error message you were getting usually means that the machine is trying to boot from a disk that's not on the controller/port it's supposed to be on.

RE: Win 98 vhd clone of old hard drive Nelviticus (Programmer) 13 Sep 10 11:46 Thanks in advance for any help I can get, vhd is bad? Is there a better method to transfer my existing Win 98 hard drive to a virtual hard drive? Have I missed steps, or is it likely that the. It has a 30GB Hard drive, with 15GB free after copying the old laptop's. When I start the new virtual machine, I get the following error: 'A disk read error occurred'. I have created a new virtual machine with 128 MB of RAM, the same as my old laptop. I have installed Virtual PC 2007 on the XP laptop. vhd file from the C: partition (which includes the Win 98 OS) of my old laptop using 'Disk2vhd'. I am trying to install a Windows 98 virtual hard drive into Microsoft Virtual PC on my windows XP laptop, but I am having difficulty. From time to time I need to access several legacy software applications that are installed in a very old (Windows 98) laptop.

Access usb thumb drive windows 98 virtual box