Help-Advice: Clicking noise

[GameTheory]

If you are especially worried about the virtual machine, just copy the file that contains its virtual hard drive to an external drive. Quite easy -- the location of the file is listed right next to the virtual PC itself in the "yourname/Virtual Machines" folder -- it says "primary disk" with a location. (You'll have to enable "view hidden folders" in your folder view to actually get to that location, but once you find the file, just drag it over to your other drive like you'd copy any file. The settings of the virtual machine can be recreated later if need be to get it running from this copy -- as long as you can copy the main drive file you should be able to get back anything on it. (You can even just mount the file as a drive without booting up the virtual machine.)

[Flysofree]

I can't find anything that you are talking about...Maybe I'm simply too upset to think rationally now.. Never realized how at the mercy of someone other than an MD, that I am with a computer.

[JustRalph]

If the data is important enough that you're going to be sick, find yourself a tech and do it right instead of posting here. Get some real help from somebody who knows what they are doing and can work on the system in person.

If it is the drive, it will start to click louder and louder until it dies. Whatever you do, do not power it off until it's backed up externally.

Just saying............

[Flysofree]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

If the data is important enough that you're going to be sick, find yourself a tech and do it right instead of posting here. Get some real help from somebody who knows what they are doing and can work on the system in person.

If it is the drive, it will start to click louder and louder until it dies. Whatever you do, do not power it off until it's backed up externally.

Just saying............

Thanks Ralph...Good advice especially the powering off part.

[HUSKER55]

FWIW

Tiger Direct has external hard drives on sale right now that are really inexpensive. Some are around $40. Better than losing your data.

[Flysofree]

I bought a $69. SLIM Backup Plus Portable Drive at Best Buy.... (Not a fan of them) but felt I could find some help.... It was a terrible experience today being a holiday) Have sent emails to 3 different repair places hopefully will hear back tomorrow.. I think I have everything on this device, but thanks for your reply.

[vegasone]

How to retrieve data from a Windows XP Mode virtual machine on Windows 8




http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2724115
http://superuser.com/questions/25114...-and-vmc-files








Copy your Windows XP Mode virtual hard disk (Default location: %LocalAppData%/Microsoft/Windows Virtual PC/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Mode.vhd), and the base virtual hard disk (default location: %ProgramFiles%\Windows XP Mode\Windows XP Mode base.vhd) from the Windows 8 PC to another Windows 7 PC.

[barn32]

What is a "Virtual Machine"? What does that mean?

[GameTheory]

Originally Posted by barn32

What is a "Virtual Machine"? What does that mean?

You have one physical machine and it runs whatever OS -- Windows or Linux or whatever. Imagine running an entire other OS (or even the same one) on that same physical machine at the same time -- the virtual machine has virtual hardware, its own virtual hard drive, etc. It is running an entire OS as a program, which has always been possible as an "emulator", but they always ran super slow because they were "all software". Modern CPUs have virtualization abilities built-in that allow the virtual OS to use the CPU directly as if it were real and so it runs at (almost) full-speed.

Why would you want to do that? Well in the case of Windows, it is often to run virtual Windows XP inside newer Windows 7 or 8 for programs that work well on XP but not so much on the newer OSs. But you can also run Linux OSs like Ubuntu, etc for whatever reason. (Very useful for software developers.) Everything on the virtual machine is "sandboxed" -- completely independent from the host machine (for the most part).


Google "virtualbox", "vmware", "virtualization" for more...