VirtualBox

Dick Dowdell dick.dowdell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 23:01:17 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 08/05/2014 11:38 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>
>> On 05/08/14 15:15, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/05/2014 06:40 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>
>> [cut]
>>
>>
>>> I have a dual boot setup now, Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on separate hard
>>> drives.  About the only thing I use Win7 for is to run Turbo Tax. It
>>> really would be more convenient to run it in VBox. I don't have an
>>> installation disk because Win7 came installed on the machine.
>>>
>>> I've googled this in the past and found several sets of complex and
>>> sometime conflicting instructions.  If someone who has successfully
>>> put an installed copy of Win7 in VBox would point me at the
>>> instructions they used, I would appreciate it.
>>>
>>
>> A word to the wise. I had a legitimate copy of Win7 (including an
>> installation DVD, demanded as a condition of sale) pre-installed on my
>> m/c, but after switching to Linux, deleting Win7 and creating a VM with
>> VirtualBox, I had several, severe problems. At some stage Microsoft had
>> tied the original Win7 installation to the hardware and declared that
>> the VM - on the same hardware base - was an illegal copy and blew away
>> the installation.
>>
>> Regards Peter HB
>>
>>
> Peter,
>
> I was wondering about that possibility.  When you say "blew away" do you
> mean they erased it or just somehow rendered it inoperable?
>
> Were you ever able to resolve the issue?
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>
>
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Jim,

Any time you run a Windows installation, you blow away your installed
software and, if you format the disk you blow away your data.  That's a
given.  Always back up (to another disk) before you re-install.

Regards
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