[WinMac] Re: VPC 2.0 on a G3

Ralph Wessel, Walker Co-partnership Architects(Ralph_Wessel[at]walker.co.nz)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:17:17 +1200

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, 12:00:01 AM GMT kenny epstein wrote:

>Several months ago, I bought and installed Virtual PC 2.0 (DOS version)
>and then installed windoze 95 from a CD I have. It worked fine...
>...
>Mid-July my primary partition suffered damage to the boot block, and I
>rebuilt my system from backup zip disks on another volume, while I
>searched for a utility to repair my HFS+ partition.
>...
>But when I tried to launch VPC, it gave me a msg (at the Finder) that it
>was "not installed properly - pls reinstall from CD" so I did - three
>times, same msg.
>...
>Anybody have any tips, hints, theories, info about this?

Kenny,

I suspect this is a copy protection mechanism in Virtual PC. It probably retains information about the computer/hard drive it was originally installed onto and assumes it has been illegally copied if these details are changed. I had the same problem when I replaced my computer and transfered all my applications over to the new machine. Try the following:

1) Relocate all your hard drive images etc for your existing copy of VPC
2) Delete all the preferences for VPC (from the Preferences folder in the System folder)
3) Reinstall Virtual PC from the original CD
4) Go through registration and setup steps
5) Replace the newly installed drive images with your original ones

Make sure your existing VPC setup is completely backed up before trying this.

Ralph.

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Walker Co-partnership Architects
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