[mbperk]

I am almost set to install Panther. I did a CCC back up to my external FW drive, and I was wondering where are the files that I save on the c: drive of VPC located on my Mac? I am going to do a clean install, and I want to sure that everything is on the firewire drive before I clean install.

[Earth Mk. II]

VPC uses a special file that contains all the data on your PC drive (VPC tricks the emulated OS into thinking that the file is actually a physical drive).

If you're using VPC version 6, you'll have a file named something like, "Windows XP Professional.vpc6". This really isn't a file, but a package. Inside, it contains the PC's configuration (mem allocation, network setting, etc), a saved state (if it exists) and the drive file (ends in a .vhdp extension).

So, if you back your PC file up the saved states of the PC and the drive go with it. No need to worry about backing more than one thing up.

[mbperk]

Thanks for the info and yes I am using VPC 6.

Is it no possible to access a file that I saved within VPC on my mac without opening VPC?

[bmhome1]

No. Launch VPC, find the file and drag it onto your OSX desktop (with VPC in window mode) to copy the file to OSX.

[Jacke]

Originally posted by bmhome1:
No. Launch VPC, find the file and drag it onto your OSX desktop (with VPC in window mode) to copy the file to OSX.

Actually you can access the files without starting Windows, just look at the profile settings, and when the disk image is selected you can press the "Mount drive" button.

[Hal Atkins]

Timely thread for me, because I am having a time trying to help my wife out with something. She has been running an application in VPC 6 - but a week ago she started to get an error in starting up VPC (something about a missing .dll file). She started a new profile (which works well), but she can't get to the old data or installed apps.

Any way she can mount that disk image in the previous set up and get to that data?