VBox hard disk controller (Harry's installation problem)

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Harry,

This should not be so. I suggest one of the following remedies:

1) Power off the virtual machine, go to Settings, Storage. Check
Controller: you should have an IDE controller (if not you can add one by
clicking the + icon at the bottom of the storage tree). Click on the
hard disk image (.VDI) on the storage tree, it should show IDE Primary
Master in the attributes. If, for some reason, these settings show that
you have an SCSI controller, delete that and add an IDE controller. You
do not need SCSI drivers to install. Try different IDE types, if you
still have problems installing. I have "PIIX3". That should work.


2) Download http://www.imgburn.com/. Install it and start it. Put the
SCSI driver in a folder, choose "Create image file from files/folder",
click on the third icon from top "Browse for folder..." and select the
folder, give a name to the iso file, click on the "Build" icon at the
bottom of the dialog. ImgBurn says "You have selected 1 folder, would
you like just to add the contents ...", answer "Yes". Now you have an
ISO file with the driver. Drag it onto the CD icon when installing and
asked for driver. Or go to the menu Devices, CD, Choose virtual CD...
Then point the Windows installer to the right CD drive letter.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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21.7.2014 23:53, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Kari,
>
> But the W2K CD won't install w/o the driver. I've tried. Found out
> about the driver issue by Googling the problem.
>
> Regards,
> Harry