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I recently went and dug out one of my old HDs (the PC it was mounted in is no longer in existence...) I mounted it in my PC and used DVD2VHD to convert the whole drive to a VHD. It's an old XP drive so I wanted to load it up in a VM and go in. The VHD conversion went well, I mounted it in Virtual Box and clicked Start Windows Normally and got the following error:

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Does anybody know how to get this problem fixed? The only solutions I could find online involved changing some settings before unmounting the HD from it's original computer.

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You have to tweak your VM's system settings to make the virtual processor look like the one on your old computer.

The important options are:

  • IO APIC
  • Number of cores
  • PAE/NX
  • The bit-version (32/64) of the OS type (this should not matter if your host OS is 64 bit)

I think Windows now automatically switches between HALs when it detects your CPU has changed, but this feature may not be there in Windows XP.

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