There are many ways to accomplish this, including hooking up the old hard disk to another Windows system and making the modifications there.
#Reinstall vmware tools for windows xp vm driver#
If I used that name for the SCSI driver file, I would be able to fool Windows into using the SCSI driver instead of the ATAPI driver without having to modify the registry. That made me wonder what would happen if I just replaced the driver file for the original IDE controller with the one for the virtual SCSI controller. On the other hand, I was able to boot windows from the German recovery CD using the F6 function key and noting the virtual SCSI controller driver from a floppy disk, as described on VMware's web site. Unfortunately, the virtual machine was not able to boot the German windows because it didn't have a driver for VMware's` virtual SCSI controller. Why not simply configure a virtual machine that would boot from the physical USB hard disk? To the virtual machine it would not appear as a hard disk attached to an USB controller, but rather as one attached to a SCSI controller. I knew about the fact that VMware had the ability to use physical hard disks in virtual machines. I needed a creative solution to this dilemma. Also, dual booting is not really my thing because it takes too long to switch from one operating system to the other. The infamous "Inaccessible boot device" blue screen occurred. Obviously, that didn't work because Windows expected the hard disk to be attached to an IDE controller. I then tried booting the German Windows from the USB hard disk. I also bought a USB hard disk enclosure for the old hard disk that had German Windows XP on it. I went to the shop, bought a new hard disk and installed an English language version of Windows XP on it. Furthermore, I wanted to maintain the German version for certain tasks. I could have reinstalled Windows XP from scratch but that would have meant losing all my settings and configurations and, since I have fine-tuned my system, many hours of work would have gone down the drain.
The other day I decided that I wanted to switch my laptop's German language version of Windows XP to the English language version.
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