I have a newer computer that was bought for me for college by my family. They got a system with windows vista home 64 bit. I was hoping someone would either post directions or a link to directions about how to dual boot windows xp pro 32 bit onto this machine. There are just some things I can't get working in the 64 bit OS and I've come across a great many horror stories when looking for instructions concerning boot logs and ini files. I already have a 30 gig partition made, X:, for the xp install.
If anyone is willing to help out, thank you and thanks just the same for reading my request!
Another option you can try is to use the free virtualbox. This program is installed inside vista, then xp is installed inside the virtualbox and runs from there. This doesn't require any changes to the hard drive. It'll run most xp software in the virtualbox.
Thank you. Unfortunately, the cheap company my family bought the computer from comes with restore discs instead of full windows vista discs so I don't really have that option. Virtualbox just makes me mad because it doesn't access all the hardware on my vista machine from the virtual xp. I need hardware support, not emulation. Actually, what I need is for the world to start thoroughly supporting x64 in the open source community. :D
The plot thickens: After finding a halfway decent tutorial I tried to use my xp pro disk. When I use the windows setup command, the option to instal windows xp is greyed out and unselectable. So is the option to check my machine for compatibility }:O
Fine...boot from cd, right? Wrong. I get a blue screen when I try to do that. Thing is, I know the cd works because I tried it on my older system AND I made a half hearted attempt to put it on this compute rbefore but chickened out when I didn't know which partition to select (I didn't have it labeled and the unallocated space thing kinda threw me off.)
Does anyone have any ideas why this fairly simple thin g should be so complicated? I just want to use my old stuff. ;_;
