I have a disk from my old desktop that has XP on it specifically to play some old games. I finally turned it to a virtual image using disk2vhd from Sysinternals. I made a new VM in virtualbox and started it up. Of course, nothing happened.
I shut the vm down and removed the IDE controller and replaced it with a SATA controller. I attached the vhd and started the VM.
This time I got the warning that windows did not start successfully and would I like to start in safe mode or normally. Of course I selected normally, and it locked up.
I'm pretty sure that I have to go in and replace some of the hardware settings and maybe the disk ID. I believe that there are some common known issues when converting physical XP machines to virtual. It's just too late to look them up right now.
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