Absolutely true but that's another whole process. Creating a VHD then converting it to a VMDK seems pretty silly.
________________________________ From: Joe Pochedley To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Thu Dec 03 10:31:00 2009 Subject: RE: OT | Favour Not necessarily. There are tools that will convert VMDKs to VHDs and VHDs to VMDKs. Vmware Server and Workstation themselves will even convert VHDs to the VMDK format for use with their products. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT | Favour Just a note, the OP said VHD so unless he missspoke VMWare is out of the question. ________________________________ From: Joe Pochedley To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Thu Dec 03 09:50:45 2009 Subject: RE: OT | Favour Andrew, 1) I find it extremely hard to believe that the OP doesn’t have access to a floppy drive in any way… No access to a floppy drive through coworkers, other machines in the business (assuming this is for business), friends, family, old machine sitting unused in storage, etc etc…? Heck, a USB floppy drive can be bought at the local Wal-Mart or electronics store for $15 if the OP was that desperate to get this done… Even if the OP didn’t have access to a floppy and wasn’t willing to part with $15 there are NT4 boot-disk images available already on the ‘net which can be found in the first hit on Google with the right terms… Whether the OP trusts those images or is willing to work into that “grey…#157; legal area is totally up to him… 2) Did you even bother to read my whole response? I also gave a solution that doesn’t require a floppy drive (in any way). Yes, it may require more time and effort to create a new bootable CD, but it negates the need for a floppy altogether. 3) In short, I provided two solutions, at least one of which should help the OP work through his problem. Sorry if this sounds a bit rude, but I’m unsure how to say it politely: Your comment added no useful information to the thread… If your comment is not going to provide value to the discussion, why bother responding? Nothing personal, Joe P From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT | Favour Yes but he said he didn't have a floppy drive and your solution still requires a floppy drive. Andrew 2009/12/3 Joe Pochedley <joe.poched...@fivesgroup.com<mailto:joe.poched...@fivesgroup.com>> You wouldn’t need a physical floppy drive for a VM environment. HyperV and Vmware (and I would presume other VM environments) allow you to mount a floppy image into the virtual floppy drive. You could then create your own floppy images from any machine that does have a floppy and copy them over to the VM environment. Alternately, there are ways to create a bootable NT4 CD and negate the need for the floppies…. Start at this page: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#nt4 Enjoy. Joe P From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk<mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT | Favour He said he didn't have a floppy drive. 2009/12/2 Damien Solodow <damien.solo...@harrison.edu<mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu>> Interesting. Since you’re looking for a vhd, is this a VM machine? If so, you can add a virtual floppy drive to the VM and have it point that to an image file. Then you can make the boot floppies into the image files with no physical drive required. From: KevinM [mailto:kev...@wlkmmas.org<mailto:kev...@wlkmmas.org>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT | Favour I have a CD, but it does not seem to be bootable….. Kevinm | WLKMMAS | This message is Certified Swine Flu Free | http://www.hedonists.ca<http://www.hedonists.ca/> From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu<mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT | Favour You don’t have an NT4 cd? From: KevinM [mailto:kev...@wlkmmas.org<mailto:kev...@wlkmmas.org>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT | Favour I need to build a new NT4 server. Anyone have a prebuilt VHD I can borrow? I don’t have a floppy drive to build the 3 disks to install with, and there does not seem to be an ISO in MSDN…. 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