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Power Failure Blue Screen

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 05/09/2006
From: "albie" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I have an image created on my local hard drive (laptop with battery).
The settings and undo disk are on a network drive. The power went out
in our office and the virtual blue-screened. I closed the virtual and
deleted the changes.

I am able to start the virtual again, but now none of my changes in the
undo disk are being read into the .vhd file, so it appears as if I was
starting with the virtual before making any changes. For some reason,
virtual pc won't recognize the undo disk and use it.

Is there anything I can do? I realize the configuration wasn't the
best and I should have been more diligent about committing changes to
the hard disk. My bad, but if you might know of any way to fix this,
I'd appreciate it!

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Re: Power Failure Blue Screen

Sent: 05/09/2006
From: "Ben Armstrong [MSFT]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

If you selected to turn off and delete changes - then all of the changes
are gone - and there is no way to get them back.
--
Cheers,
Benjamin Armstrong
===============================
Virtual machine Program Manager

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albie wrote:

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> I have an image created on my local hard drive (laptop with battery).
> The settings and undo disk are on a network drive. The power went out
> in our office and the virtual blue-screened. I closed the virtual and
> deleted the changes.
>
> I am able to start the virtual again, but now none of my changes in the
> undo disk are being read into the .vhd file, so it appears as if I was
> starting with the virtual before making any changes. For some reason,
> virtual pc won't recognize the undo disk and use it.
>
> Is there anything I can do? I realize the configuration wasn't the
> best and I should have been more diligent about committing changes to
> the hard disk. My bad, but if you might know of any way to fix this,
> I'd appreciate it!
>

Re: Power Failure Blue Screen

Sent: 05/09/2006
From: "albie" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

If I were to get a backup of the undo disk, is there a way to configure
the vmc file so that the image will use it?

Re: Power Failure Blue Screen

Sent: 05/09/2006
From: "Ben Armstrong [MSFT]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Yes. Setup a virtual machine with undo disks and use notepad to look at
the VMC file - you should be able to figure out what to do.
--
Cheers,
Benjamin Armstrong
===============================
Virtual machine Program Manager

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
You assume all risk for your use.

albie wrote:

Show quoted text

> If I were to get a backup of the undo disk, is there a way to configure
> the vmc file so that the image will use it?
>

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