> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: Power PC
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> A couple of days ago I was working on the Virtual PC doing some stuff with
> Minitab, then I had to leave so I did as usual, I just quit the program,
> closed my laptop and hit the road. The problem came when later I open the
> laptop and realized than the program had closed but then
> when I tried to open it again it showed me a window of a virtual machine
> trying to start but at the MS-DOS startup a message came than said than "I
> didn't specify any boot disk" and the Virtual PC list was empty. The PC file
> is still at the same place but the program will not open it, it keeps saying
> than I have to choose a virtual machine file, I opened the Windows.vp7's
> "package" file and see than the virtual machine file had a different
> name(used to be disk1), so I change the name back and nothing happened, then
> I created an other virtual machine and choose the file when trying to open
> Windows and nothing. So now I don't know what to do, I have important
> documents there and I can't get'hem back, I've already tried the "Data
> migrate" utility and didn't work out, please HELP !!!!!!!

> If you didn't shut down Windows prior to quitting VPC, you may have
> hosed your boot block. Since VPC doesn't come with a repair disk or the
> ability to fix an unbootable virtual machine, your options are limited.
> If you have a commercial version of XP with a recovery disk, you could
> boot from that and see if you can repair your virtual machine. If you
> don't, you can install another copy of XP and install your applications
> on it, then migrate the data from the old virtual machine to the new one.
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