On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Kees Nuyt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:47:19 -0700, you wrote: > >> Dear all, >> I have a windows XP-Pro drive that was booting just fine >> on real hardware. >> >> However, While I was running Linux on a laptop, >> on which VBox was installed, I took out the windows drive >> from the other machine and connected it to the laptop >> via a USB external box. >> >> It booted just fin under VBox. >> >> But now, it will not boot by itself on the real HW machine (a desktop). >> >> What happens is I see the screen switch to graphics mode, then >> very very fast, some message comes out, way too fast for me to >> read, and the machine then reboots. >> >> Would appreciate some help to get to the bottom of this. > > Probably the stored hardware properties (and driver selection) have > changed by running on different hardware, in this case the VM's "virtual > hardware". > Or the MBR is hosed. > > During boot, press F8 (keep tapping it) before it switches to graphics > mode, as a matter of fact as early in the boot process as you can. > Then try to diagnose by starting in "safe mode". > I can't tell what do do next, I'm far from a windows specialist. > > I assume you read and understood all the warnings on > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk ? > > > -- > Regards, > > Kees Nuyt >
Thank you Kees, I did indeed try F8 many times, to no avail. I even resorted to the winxp-sp3 install CD and went into recovery mode and issued the commands fixmbr fixboot still to no avail. It still see the very very brief message which I am unable to read and machine reboots. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
