Re: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp

[Michael McConnell]

Ashish Naik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed windows xp without any problem. However, xp doesnot start 
> and the message is ‘Disk Error press any key to restart’. What could be 
> the reason?

I ran into this with WinNT4, trying to use disc images bigger than 1023/16/63 
(504Mb).

My workaround to this has to always specify the -hdachs settings, in my case 
4092/16/63 for a nearly 2Gb disc.

With a completely blank disc image, its internals returned 4092/16/63, but 
after partitioning and formatting, it used 1023/64/63, which clashed with the 
old settings which were used at the time of writing the boot sector.

To confuse the issue further, specifying -hdachs 1023/64/63 caused the NT 
installer to freeze for a bit, then claim the disc was unusable...

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