Program installation program

Hi,

I'm trying to install a windows based program in virtual PC but am
running into problems. After launching Virtual PC with Windows XP, I
went into the control panels, then Add or Remove programs, then Add
New Programs. Then I clicked the CD or Floppy button to add a program
from a CD ROM. It then said to insert the products first installation
CD-ROM and then click next. I was able to successfuly install the
first disk of my program with the above method, but when I went back a
second time and completed the above steps - I inserted the disk into
the CD-ROM and then clicked next, then it briefly came up with:

Please wait while windows looks for the installation program

....then it said Windows was unable to find the installation program.

I'm not sure why this is happening - I mean I know the disk is
inserted correctly becasue I can see it on my Macintosh desktop, and
even if I browse to the D drive it says disk 2 is there also.

Can anyone tell me why it won't install the second CD?

Any help much appreciated.

Seraya

Seraya,
Sometimes there are processes like anti-virus scans that delay or
interfere with the detection of physical media in the Guest OS. This is
because physical media tends to be slower than virtual hard disk
access. To avoid these problems, I prefer to work exclusively with CD
..iso files. For that, I create .iso files with Apple's Disk Copy or
WinISO in Windows XP and either "insert" aka mount a CD using OS X
support for .iso files or daemon-tools in Windows XP, check out:

<a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.daemon-tools.cc/" target="_blank">http://www.daemon-tools.cc/</a>

Both techniques work well.

Richard

Seraya wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm trying to install a windows based program in virtual PC but am
 > running into problems. After launching Virtual PC with Windows XP, I
 > went into the control panels, then Add or Remove programs, then Add
 > New Programs. Then I clicked the CD or Floppy button to add a program
 > from a CD ROM. It then said to insert the products first installation
 > CD-ROM and then click next. I was able to successfuly install the
 > first disk of my program with the above method, but when I went back a
 > second time and completed the above steps - I inserted the disk into
 > the CD-ROM and then clicked next, then it briefly came up with:
 >
 > Please wait while windows looks for the installation program
 >
 > ....then it said Windows was unable to find the installation program.
 >
 > I'm not sure why this is happening - I mean I know the disk is
 > inserted correctly becasue I can see it on my Macintosh desktop, and
 > even if I browse to the D drive it says disk 2 is there also.
 >
 > Can anyone tell me why it won't install the second CD?
 >
 > Any help much appreciated.
 >
 > Seraya