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Muzer
13 Jan 2007, 08:23
When I was searching through some floppy disks, I noticed that somehow I had still got Windows 1, and I would like to get this working on virtual PC, but I just can't get it to detect the Virtual HDD! I know there's something like formatting you have to do, but I can't seem to get that working. Plese, is it possible to give a step-by-step of setting up the new machine, to starting the setup?

Thanks!

P.S. I have VPC 2004, the free one (I think it's free, anyway)
Xinos
13 Jan 2007, 13:27
Maybe the filesystem that windows 1 uses is too old?
Perhaps you need the 12 or 16bit FAT filesystems emulated?
Cyclaws
13 Jan 2007, 15:55
Well, make sure the partition / virtualPC 'drive' isn't NTFS. I can't remember what Windows 1 uses, but it may be FAT16 or even just FAT.

EDIT: Oh wait. Said above me. Oh well.
canofworms
25 Jan 2007, 20:55
When I was searching through some floppy disks, I noticed that somehow I had still got Windows 1, and I would like to get this working on virtual PC, but I just can't get it to detect the Virtual HDD! I know there's something like formatting you have to do, but I can't seem to get that working. Plese, is it possible to give a step-by-step of setting up the new machine, to starting the setup?

Thanks!

P.S. I have VPC 2004, the free one (I think it's free, anyway)

Still having trouble?

Well, at this point, I think the IDE controller that virtualpc emulates is too new.

You might want to try QEMU (http://www.qemu.org) which is fast and complicated, or Bochs (http://bochs.sf.net), which is stupidly slow (bout as fast as a Windows 1 pc) but is very accurate. Either way, I would be happy to help you set it up for either, if you need any help.

A while ago I got bored and started modding Windows for Workgroups 3.11, by the time I was done with it, there was IE5, RealPlayer, QuickTime, The Games Factory, WordPerfect, WordPerfect Presentations, Grand Prix Manager 2, WiZip or something like that, it was about as modded as you can get, though I could not get Win32s to work without BSODdding Windows, nor could I find Winamp for 16bit...
evilworm2
26 Jan 2007, 18:02
You might want to try QEMU (http://www.qemu.org) which is fast and complicated

Fast: Yes
Complicated: No

It's the best open source processor emulator i know.
canofworms
26 Jan 2007, 19:07
Fast: Yes
Complicated: No

It's the best open source processor emulator i know.

My favourite is InnoTek VirtualBox, which is open source and IMHO faster than VMware. Plus it has a nice shiny UI.
evilworm2
26 Jan 2007, 22:06
My favourite is InnoTek VirtualBox, which is open source and IMHO faster than VMware. Plus it has a nice shiny UI.

Looks very nice, thanks for the hint.