Windows 7 I have a problem when I used Virtual PC to open a VHD file

[Starr]

Hi every guys,

I have installed a new computer with WIN7, and I wanted to restore the old computer's hard disk to the new one. Because the new computer dosen't has IDE port, so I couldn't installed the old hard disk(it has IDE port) to it. The following steps were what I had done, but it didn't work.
1. I have created a VHD file by Winimage software on the old one and copied it to new one.
2. I intalled Windows Virtual PC and XP module;
3. when I created a vitual machine on the VHD file that I copied from the old computer, it showed me there wasn't boot file;
4. Also, I have succeded to creat a winxp virtual machine on the new VHD file (it is created by the system), and I added the Virtual disk to it with the old VHD file, but I cann't open it in the Vitrual XP system.

So, is there anyone know what is wrong with my work, or how to finish it. Thanks.

 

[Mitchell_A]

That is most likely the reason you can not boot from it, yes.

 

[Starr]

Is there any solution to fix it or achieve the goal as using the old hard disk on windows 7?

 

[Mitchell_A]

No, though it may be possible to recover the data from it:
Check it out >> Link Removed

 

[Trouble]

I think, before throwing in the towel, you might want to look at something like Virutal Box which also supports the .VHD format and see if it works any better although I haven't used it, so I wouldn't be of much help. I also don't understand why you couldn't install Virtual PC 2007 and run the microsoft updates twice, could it be that your current hardware is stopping you from using a software virtualization environment. Like I said earlier, I'm running it fine on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, with a dual core processor and 4 gigs of ram, but again I don't have the option to use hardware virtualization.