Thanks anyway! I paid for at least three MS Windows installations without ever having used one of them. No I finally have to use one and it still doesn't work. That's what I call bad service!
But ok, I hope somebody can help :) Best wishes, Dietrich Samuel Jones wrote: > Ahhhh I see. In that case, I'm not sure. I was able to install from my > Dell's included cd, but that's a plain Windows disk; not sure how IBM > does it. Many companies tie their recovery disks to a certain hardware > configuration (most likely different from the one VBox presents). > > I'll leave now to let someone with better information take over :-) > > On 2/26/07, *Dietrich Bollmann* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply! > > But I think my problem is much more basic :) > > I do not know how to install windows on vbox without > an installation CD. When I bought the ThinkPad I > also paid for Windows XP - but IBM didn't deliver an > installation CD. I called the IBM service center and asked > them to send me one - but the only thing they could tell > me was, that they can't and that I could reinstall Windows > from a Rescue-CD I could burn myself. I did so and got > one single CD - but don't have any idea how to use it > for installing Windows XP on VirtualBox... > > Or can I run VirtualBox using the installation on my HD? > This would be the nicest solution :) > > Thanks, Dietrich > > Samuel Jones wrote: > > I was able to just re-use the key for my existing installation > with no > > trouble. Still boot the real version occasionally, hasn't bugged > me yet. > > > > On 2/26/07, * Dietrich Bollmann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I own a x60s IBM ThinkPad with a dual boot installation of > > - the original, resized windows XP installation and > > - Linux (Debian etch) > > > > I would like to be able to run XP inside of VirtualBox > > running under Debian without having to pay for yet another > > Windows installation. > > > > Unfortunately IBM didn't deliver any installation CD for > > MS Windows and all I have is the resized installed version > > and probably (I hope so at least?) the XP recovery partition. > > > > Is there a way to copy / reinstall / "recover" XP into > > VirtualBox? > > > > Thanks, Dietrich > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > <http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
