[Virtualacorn-list] A little problem

[T.O.M.S.]

Tue Jan 7 15:08:19 GMT 2014 Mik Towse mik.towse at xemik.com sayeth:

>>>> ...my VRPC install was on a Win XP OS, I just copied the
>>>> whole VRPC from it to the new Win 7 Pro machine (Exactly
>>>> as now to the same named place) and after entering the new
>>>> unlock code, it just worked.

> There is a gotcha though that you need to be wary of. Modern
> systems will probably have a Sata DVD installed & may don't
> support ATAPI. So if your original version of VRPC supports
> ATAPI & has atapicd.dll in the plugin folder, VRPC will not run
> on the new system.

That's true but, just to clarify, the atapi.dll plug-in will (I think) 
have been installed during the *original* VirtualRPC installation, 
i.e.. from the master disc.

So if you do have a SATA DVD drive on a new system, I think you have 
to manually move or remove the atapi.dll plug-in, regardless of 
whether you're copying across a fully pre-configured version of 
VirtualRPC, or installing a default copy.

Alex Hamilton
pp T.O.M.S.