I created the vmdk for the hard drive as follows:

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename 
/home/jd/.VirtualBox/Machines/winxp/winxp-hd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdc 
-register

The drive /dev/sdc is bootable from the grub menu. No problems there.

But when I boot it in vbox, windows proceeds to display
those short bar codes then the display (of windows) goes
black and stays black, except for the white stripe at the
bottom where the bar codes were.
On the host the cpu usage of vbox goes down to about 2%.

Since this was the first boot attempt of a hard drive of
windows in vbox, I have not had even the opportunity
to install the guest add-ons.

Thankx.

JD

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