Hi ,I'm having problems installing Windows NT 3.51 on Virtual PC 2004. What happens is that the setup gets through the floppy part of the install and copies CD contents to the install folders on the hard drive. But when the setup reboots and starts the GUI part of the install it doesn't find the CD drive and starts asking for the install CD.
Has anybody here had this problem or know how to fix it?

I also tried installing NT 3.51 from MS-DOS 6.22, but that didn't work either. It copies the CD contents to the hard drive and reboots. It then continues the setup from the floppies it created and it works fine until it starts searching for a hard disk partion to install to, which it doesn't find and ends the setup. After this I find that the hard disk isn't readable, it can't even be formatted, it has to be repartioned with FDISK and reformatted. Why is the NT setup corrupting my hard drive?
Thanks in advance

Is this not really an XP VPC problem as you are running in Emulation??

Software can act differently in emulation unless it is specifically written to be compatible!

Well it worked fine with Windows 2.1, 3.11, 95, NT 4.0, 98, 2000 and XP. So why not NT 3.51? On the VPC compatibility list on http://vpc.visualwin.com/ it says it's supposed to work and their aren't any extra notes.

Have you tried the switches of the WINNT installation program? the /B switch forces setup to work in floppyless mode, and some other (type WINNT /? for available switches) forces installer to use a source directory (with installation files), rather than CD.