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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp
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Ashish Naik wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I installed windows xp without any problem. However, xp doesnot start=20
> and the message is =91Disk Error press any key to restart=92. What coul=
d be=20
> the reason?

I ran into this with WinNT4, trying to use disc images bigger than 1023/1=
6/63=20
(504Mb).

My workaround to this has to always specify the -hdachs settings, in my c=
ase=20
4092/16/63 for a nearly 2Gb disc.

With a completely blank disc image, its internals returned 4092/16/63, bu=
t=20
after partitioning and formatting, it used 1023/64/63, which clashed with=
 the=20
old settings which were used at the time of writing the boot sector.

To confuse the issue further, specifying -hdachs 1023/64/63 caused the NT=
=20
installer to freeze for a bit, then claim the disc was unusable...

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