{"id":216,"date":"2006-01-30T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2006-01-30T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T21:00:36","slug":"virtual-pc-boot-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Virtual PC Boot Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been finding myself working inside Virtual PC sessions a lot of late, mainly for product reviews, beta products, Visual Studio 2005 and Internet Explorer 7.0.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t been a problem for me, however a few folks who have just started out using Virtual PC have asked me about book disks and how to get a Virtual PC session started.  I&#8217;m fortunate enough to have bootable Windows XP SP2 media and bootable Windows 2000 media, so it has never been a problem for me.  However, since many of the MSDN operating system installs are now supplied as CD (or DVD) images, once you&#8217;ve burnt the image to CD (or DVD), making it bootable can sometimes be an irksome process.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Microsoft has made a collection of boot disks available for download;  RoudyBob.NET has done a nice job bringing them altogether in one place.  Get your book disks here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roudybob.net\/?p=123\">RoudyBob.NET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RoudyBob.NET provides us with Virtual PC (and VMWare) boot disks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}