Failed Windows Standalone

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Thanks, Jacque, I just tried something else. I copied from the  
Firewire drive to the startup drive rather than directly to VPC's  
Shared Folder. It didn't solve the problem, but now I get a different  
dialog that says "Can't open the file "its name.exe"; error was 0,0.  
Maybe I'll try writing it to a CD and then trying to open the CD from  
within VPC. I think you're probably right; that it is not a Rev  
problem, but a Window's problem of some sort. Perhaps, it needs to be  
installed and doesn't like merely having it shoved into a Shared  
Folder, though I've done that with other Windows apps - I think. It's  
been so very long since I've used one.

Sometimes life gets so complicated. Sigh!

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:24 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>> Thanks for the info, Jacque. I didn't have a CD involved in any  
>> way. I don't have my two computers networked (security - one for  
>> the internet and the other for real work - smile), so I go between  
>> them with a firewire hard drive that I can hot connect/disconnect.  
>> But there may be something to what you've said and I'll have to  
>> think over it. I'm running windows XP under Virtual PC 6, so I  
>> don't know exactly how all of this is relevant. I've run a number  
>> of programs, some from CDs too, without any problems in the past.  
>> If/when I solve this I'll let everyone know the why and wherefore.
>
> Not that I'm an expert in this stuff, by any means, but what I got  
> from the info was that Windows tries to read different drives in  
> different modes. If a driver isn't set to a compatible mode, you  
> will get an error and the read/write will fail. If you are using a  
> FireWire drive, the VPC default driver settings may not be set  
> right for that drive.
>
> The easiest way around this would be to simply copy your standalone  
> to the actual hard drive image. Then you won't have to worry about  
> read/write driver mechanisms or make any Windows adjustments.  
> Basically, you aren't seeing a Rev problem but rather a Windows OS  
> read/write error due to incompatible driver settings.
>
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