VIRTUAL PC 2004 & W2Ksp4

[Alterego]

I need help on sharing a folder with the host PC.

I installed Virtual PC 2004 on a Win2Ksp4 host machine.

Virtual machine runs WinME and is of use to execute an old MS-DOS program essential for my job!!!

This program is LogicMaster 90, for GE-Fanuc Programmable Logic Control, for who knows about it...

It can't run correctly under Win2K, that I need for others reasons: this is why I installed Virtual PC.

The problem is the MS-DOS program can't see correctly the shared directory.

For example, if I share the host directory c:\SR\ as E: in the virtual machine, the MS-DOS program can see E:\, but isn't able to browse the subdirectories!

Any suggestion?

Many thanks.

Marco

[wyattXP]

is your Win 2k formatted with NTFS???

[Alterego]

No, I left it as FAT32... Is this a problem?

[Alterego]

Furthermore, also the WinME explorer can't browse the E: virtual drive unit subdirectories!!!

Maybe it's a problem of ME OS, isn't it?

Should I try with a WinME patch? If yes, which one?

[LiquidSage]

you can mount the partition with your dir. as a virtual hard disk. ME will see it as nothing more than a plain hd.

[Alterego]

I talked to others Virtual PC users, and I've seen this is a well known problem.

Hope Microsoft will fix it in next releases and updates.

By the way, I solved connecting host folder to be shared as network unit.

Many thanks to you all.

Marco