0. Before we start
music-software-pcem
This is for for Windows 11 and Linux users ONLY. If you have Windows 10 laptop/desktop, go back and download Revival or the OG!
You need to download:
1. Setting up
Open PCem, click “New” on the bottom left;
Name your instance however you like (like M2K or whatever),
then we gonna go through important settings in each tab:
Machine: [Slot 1] Gigabyte GA-686BX;
CPU: Intel Pentium II//350;
Memory: 256 MB;
Next tab:
Device: 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000;
3rd tab for sound:
Device: Sound Blaster PCI 128
HDD: [IDE] Standard IDE;
FDD1: 3.5" 1.44M;
FDD2: None;
CD Speed: 24X;
Type: click highlighted button and select HardDrive.vhd you downloaded;
Everything else should be set up no problem, press “OK” at the bottom and then press the arrow at the top-left of first menu to start this instance you prepared!
2. Accessing Virtual Hard Drive on Windows
You might want to import or export things out of that virtual hard drive where you got your Windows ME and MTV Music Generator: There’s couple ways to do it, and it might not work on every system (I tested my solutions on Windows 11 Home)
BEFORE WE BEGIN: make sure to turn off your Virtual Machine, because you cannot access the drive if another app is using it!
A. 7-zip (Export only)
7-zip is popular file archiver that can open up your .VHD file, allowing you to copy any files from your virtual machine, but you cannot use 7-zip to put new files into it!
Download it here: https://www.7-zip.org/
B. Disk Management
Windows 11 has built-in app called "Disk Management", or you can find it in settings as "create and format disk partitions" - using this you can mount your virtual disk drive and import/export any file onto it!
It might not work if you don’t have hyper-v installed:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v
You can access content of that drive like it’s a normal hard drive, inside “My Computer”
Remember to detach it after you’re done!
C. DiskPART
Windows has another disk management app called “diskpart” - you can launch it through admin command line and put in following commands:
diskpart
select vdisk file="C:\Users\CHANGETHAT\VirtualBox VMs\M2Kpc\M2Kpc.vhd"
attach vdisk
detach vdisk
D. WinImage (shareware)
WinImage is paid app that will give you access to your virtual disk drive... but for 30 days :C
Still, it works regardless if you got hyper-v installed on your Windows or not!
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