Dear Sir/Madam:

I have a few observations for you as per your posted request.

Yesterday I purchased the VPC 7 upgrade, assuming I wouldn't have any
problem
installing it.

It installed just fine, but upon reading the manual I realized it was
no good.

Originally I had a G4 Mac and had purchased VPC ver. 3.0, but never
upgrade to
5.0. Mainly because I bought a G5, which would be meaningless since
only VPC 7.0 works on G5s.

So now I am in a Catch-22 because even if I were to purchase ver. 5.0
and try to install it, it would not work.

I should have known that what "was" a good program on the G4 would be a
mess
once Bill Gates and MS took over.

What can I do?

I cannot return the upgrade and I do not feel like spending over $200
just to
buy the stand-alone version. This is ridiculous in my opinion.

Any help you can provide me is deeply appreciated.
Many thanks.

Best regards,

Glenn Welker
ghwelker3@comcast.net

In article <1104349808.761871.45960@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
 ghwelker3@comcast.net wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam:
> 
> I have a few observations for you as per your posted request.
> 
> Yesterday I purchased the VPC 7 upgrade, assuming I wouldn't have any
> problem
> installing it.
> 
> It installed just fine, but upon reading the manual I realized it was
> no good.
> 
> Originally I had a G4 Mac and had purchased VPC ver. 3.0, but never
> upgrade to
> 5.0. Mainly because I bought a G5, which would be meaningless since
> only VPC 7.0 works on G5s.
> 
> So now I am in a Catch-22 because even if I were to purchase ver. 5.0
> and try to install it, it would not work.
> 
> I should have known that what "was" a good program on the G4 would be a
> mess
> once Bill Gates and MS took over.
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> I cannot return the upgrade and I do not feel like spending over $200
> just to
> buy the stand-alone version. This is ridiculous in my opinion.
> 
> Any help you can provide me is deeply appreciated.
> Many thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Glenn Welker
> ghwelker3@comcast.net

Microsoft was very negligent wrt installing this upgrade on a G5. Their 
web-site tells you to do this if you have a G5 and a version of VPC 
that's older than VPC-7, but they give you no instructions on how to do 
this. 

If you had VPC-6 it would be real easy, just get the file called 
"Windows XP Home.zip" and unzip it to reveal a file called Windoes XP 
Home.VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and move it onto your G5 HD. Then open 
VPC-7 and import the .VHD file and VPC-7 will convert it. I don't have 
VPC-3, but I do have a copy of VPC-4, and it doesn't have the Windows 
..VHD file broken out from the installer. Sorry. 

If you still have VPC-3 still installed on your G4, I'd just go find the 
PC "virtual" hard disk that VPC makes, and either copy it to a CD-R or 
network the two Macs together and move that file over to the G5 and see 
if VPC-7 can convert it.

Failing that, You're stuck with buying a copy of Windows XP and 
installing it as a new OS on top of VPC-7. If the file weren't so large 
(11 Megs), I'd gladly e-mail you a copy of the "Windows XP Home.zip" 
file from my VPC-6 install set, but most E-mail ISPs won't allow 
transfer of a file that big as an E-mail attachment.

-- 
George Graves
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"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French 
one behind me." Gen. G.S. Patton