It was a drag
Luckily these two posts made it clear (aftear a couple of hours lost) as to how to make everything right in Virtual PC
Link one
Link two
Check out the comments on them there is some wisdom there too
Nowadays if you are running Windows Server 2008 you can install it without all the problems, it starts up great and with no glitches at all.
Nowadays if you are running Windows Server 2008 you can install it without all the problems, it starts up great and with no glitches at all.