Remember: a VM drive can be swapped around the same as a regular hard drive. Then detach from working XP vm and reattach your new VM drive to the WinME virtualbox and continue your install. This seems to work fine, admittedly on a 32 bit Vista host. Format it inside the XP vm but do not assign a drive letter. If it helps at all, I installed Windows 7 64 bit using the 'Windows 2008' option in Virtualbox. Keep in mind you will need your Windows ME license KEY to complete the install so I hope you saved your sticker.Īnother trick you can try is to connect your NEW unformatted VM drive to a working XP VM. Note: When you boot the Win ME cd, select boot with CD support, then format c: then Sys C: then you can run Setup.exe from root directory of the CD and it should work fine. Then remove the hirens boot CD iso (V15.2 was current last I saw) and point to the windows ME CD /. To format it inside the VM, in Mini-XP, right click on my computer, manage, diskmanagement, select new unpartitioned drive, right click, partition it as FAT32 (Not NTFS), reboot into hirens mini-xp again, go back into disk management, format. Download Windows 7 ISO (Ultimate and Professional Edition) Windows 7 Direct Download Link. Make a 4GB or so partition, then format it FAT32 (I used 4K blocks)-Hiren's Boot CD in Mini-XP mode is recommended. The answer to your question when WinME says it needs nnnnnn diskspace is that ME can not see a formated partition. I tried attaching the log file but it says it's to big. I have it installed in VirtualBox finally, but now it crashes or w/e. I have to run FDISK to make the virtual disk formatted and partitioned for Windows ME setup, it's all confusing me to. Yes, for Windows ME, VBox sets 8GB of space, which is more than enough even for XP. Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox windows VM list, choose Show in Explorer/Finder/File Manager. Here is the working VirtualBox image of Windows 7 you can download and use it in minutes. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set. It's possible that setup was complaining about the hdd being too small (my Win98 hdds are 2GB in virtual size, which may be the VBox default?), but what that message most reminds me of is the partitioning step where it tells you how much space is available on the drive and asks if you want to allocate all of it to Windows. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VMs OS if possible. That implies a pre-existing filesystem, which is usually not the case. I've installed Win98 several times (as BillG says, WinME and Win98SE - basically the same thing), and I don't remember setup ever telling me that installation requires x amount of disk space.
Mpack wrote:This discussion is confusing to me.