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Here's the deal.
I am trying to use MS Virtual PC 2004 to restore images onto that I created from my physical hard drive using Norton Ghost 2002. I am trying to restore images with two different operating systems: Windows 2000 Pro and Windows NT Server 4. Without doing anything to the created image itself, I was able to restore both images onto their respective VPC's (and the clone check was completed successfully), yet when I rebooted the VPC's, the WIN2k one stopped processing data after the gray "Starting Windows" bar had completed loading, and the WINNTServer one came up with a blue screen with an error message that read--
HAL: MPS MP Structure not found
HAL: No MPS Table Found
HAL: This HAL.DLL requires MPS version 1.1
Replace HAL.DLL with correct hal for this system. The system is halting.
I went to the VPC news group with this problem and they told me that the differing hardware between a physical PC and the emulated hardware of the VPC can cause this exact sort of problem. I was given two suggestions to solve the WIN2k problem, the first was to do a recovery install on the VPC, which didn't work because the media I originally installed Windows 2000 from was licensed by Gateway and I wasn't allowed to do that. The second was to sysprep the source machine before taking the image, then go through the mini-setup on the VPC I restore the image to. Well I did just that, and I got the same result as I had before, with no mini-setup wizard appearing after rebooting my computer.
My question to you all is that is there some where I could get a step-by-step tutorial/manual/guide to follow when performing sysprep? I may not have even done it correctly. And my other question is that would the same thing solve the hal problem I had with the Windows NT Server 4 VPC? And where could I get that download?
I realize this is a long post, but in order to get a better answer, you should know the history of the problem first.
Thank you,
Jessica
Here's the deal.
I am trying to use MS Virtual PC 2004 to restore images onto that I created from my physical hard drive using Norton Ghost 2002. I am trying to restore images with two different operating systems: Windows 2000 Pro and Windows NT Server 4. Without doing anything to the created image itself, I was able to restore both images onto their respective VPC's (and the clone check was completed successfully), yet when I rebooted the VPC's, the WIN2k one stopped processing data after the gray "Starting Windows" bar had completed loading, and the WINNTServer one came up with a blue screen with an error message that read--
HAL: MPS MP Structure not found
HAL: No MPS Table Found
HAL: This HAL.DLL requires MPS version 1.1
Replace HAL.DLL with correct hal for this system. The system is halting.
I went to the VPC news group with this problem and they told me that the differing hardware between a physical PC and the emulated hardware of the VPC can cause this exact sort of problem. I was given two suggestions to solve the WIN2k problem, the first was to do a recovery install on the VPC, which didn't work because the media I originally installed Windows 2000 from was licensed by Gateway and I wasn't allowed to do that. The second was to sysprep the source machine before taking the image, then go through the mini-setup on the VPC I restore the image to. Well I did just that, and I got the same result as I had before, with no mini-setup wizard appearing after rebooting my computer.
My question to you all is that is there some where I could get a step-by-step tutorial/manual/guide to follow when performing sysprep? I may not have even done it correctly. And my other question is that would the same thing solve the hal problem I had with the Windows NT Server 4 VPC? And where could I get that download?
I realize this is a long post, but in order to get a better answer, you should know the history of the problem first.
Thank you,
Jessica