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    toshiba z835 12.04 LTS and virtual box win 7 issue

    I want to run win 7 via virtual box over my toshiba z835. I have installed a fresh copy of 12.04 LTS.

    Sequence of events
    1. created a recovery media from toshiba
    2. installed 12.04 as a fresh install
    3. installed virtualbox 4.1 on the machine
    4. now trying to use recovery media 16GB usb flash drive to use as my windows 7 booting however virtual box is not detecting usb it is not giving me option to use usb as a booting device. it just hows floppy/CD/HDD

    Am I missing thing ?


    Any help is appreciated
    Regards,
    idom

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    Re: toshiba z835 12.04 LTS and virtual box win 7 issue

    What is the image on the USB? Is it the same as one would have on a Windows install CD (I didn't even know that Windows offered USB installers if so!).

    Anyway, if it is, I would think that you should be able to tell it is a HDD. However I am not 100%, so if back it up before you try.

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    Re: toshiba z835 12.04 LTS and virtual box win 7 issue

    Quote Originally Posted by idom View Post
    I want to run win 7 via virtual box over my toshiba z835. I have installed a fresh copy of 12.04 LTS.

    Sequence of events
    1. created a recovery media from toshiba
    2. installed 12.04 as a fresh install
    3. installed virtualbox 4.1 on the machine
    4. now trying to use recovery media 16GB usb flash drive to use as my windows 7 booting however virtual box is not detecting usb it is not giving me option to use usb as a booting device. it just hows floppy/CD/HDD

    Am I missing thing ?


    Any help is appreciated
    Regards,
    idom
    screen shot is attached it clearly shows that USB is not a choice and I don't have an external cd drive. Is it possible to circumvent this problem

    regards
    idom
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    Re: toshiba z835 12.04 LTS and virtual box win 7 issue

    Quote Originally Posted by joetait View Post
    What is the image on the USB? Is it the same as one would have on a Windows install CD (I didn't even know that Windows offered USB installers if so!).

    Anyway, if it is, I would think that you should be able to tell it is a HDD. However I am not 100%, so if back it up before you try.
    I don't exactly know what are you tryingto say however it does not look like in .iso thing. If I do ls in backupt usb following is the output

    odi@modiultrabook:~/Downloads$ ll /media/TI106339W0E/
    total 444
    drwx------ 7 modi modi 8192 Jan 1 1970 ./
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 13 15:08 ../
    drwx------ 3 modi modi 8192 May 12 16:09 BIN/
    drwx------ 3 modi modi 8192 May 12 16:10 BOOT/
    -rw-r--r-- 1 modi modi 383786 Nov 20 2010 BOOTMGR
    -rw-r--r-- 1 modi modi 187 May 12 16:07 DATA.INI
    -rw-r--r-- 1 modi modi 1973 Dec 21 09:28 PLANDATA.INI
    drwx------ 3 modi modi 8192 May 12 16:15 PLANFOLDER/
    drwx------ 2 modi modi 8192 May 12 16:10 SOURCES/
    -rw-r--r-- 1 modi modi 0 Jun 30 2009 !V6_00_03.VRP
    drwx------ 3 modi modi 8192 May 12 16:08 ZZImages/

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    Re: toshiba z835 12.04 LTS and virtual box win 7 issue

    VB has problems detecting and mounting using USB. Perhaps the info in the link below can help:

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31726...x-with-ubuntu/
    Ubuntu 20.04, Mint 19.10; MS Win10 Pro.
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    Re: toshiba z835 12.04 LTS and virtual box win 7 issue

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Phelps View Post
    VB has problems detecting and mounting using USB. Perhaps the info in the link below can help:

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31726...x-with-ubuntu/
    thanks. I couldn't get my win 7 running on my ubutnu 12.04 LTS via VB. However I could get XP running without any problem.


    idom

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