Re: [WinMac] VPC2


Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:18:03 -0400


        [Cross-posted by Dan to AlphaNT and Windows-MacOS Cooperation Lists]

        Hmmm... Seems like VPC2 (Connectix Virtual PC v2) is choking on the
"signature" that NT's Disk Administrator writes to a hard drive; or in this
case a drive container.

        Anybody else have any ideas?

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 11:30 PM 8/24/98 -0400, Alex Dearden wrote:
>> VPC 2 Upgrade from new VPC 2
>
>Anybody had this happen to them:
>
>I recently installed NT 4.0 using Virtual PC and it worked beautifully (I
>had my doubts). I left it open while my wife checked her email. I don't
>know if she didn't quit VPC porperly or what but next time I rebooted my
>system partition (where VPC was installed) was gone, track 0 deleted,
>couldn't find the catalog. Not Norton nor HDT could revive it (nor
>Techtool Pro) nor could I unerase my drive. Very weird indeed. And she
>didn't force quit or anything, just rebooted.
>
>Never seen anything like it.
>
>Alex Dearden
>pata@doglover.com
>
>
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