Try the tools and methods already suggested. If they don't work, you could try using sysprep on your existing Windows installation to bring windows back to a manufacturer delivering to end user state and force redirection of hardware. What I would do though is just go for the more reliable method of simply doing a new clean Windows install into Virtual Box. If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7 the "Windows Easy Transfer" tool makes moving your files and settings from the old to the new new Windows install easy and will even give you a report of applications you may want to install on your new Windows computer. Windows XP has a similar tool, but I don't remember it's name. Migration Wizard maybe. I'd honestly go with a new install and configure my VirtualMachine and host machine to share the documents, desktop, and other folders in whatever method is supported by the virtualization software so that my documents and important files always stay on the host machine instead of only being available to the Virtual Machine or by mounting the virtual machine disk image. -- Andrew Zbikowski http://andy.zibnet.us/ Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep mini bon. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20121203/1af4238e/attachment.html>