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Can anyone help please? I have a hard drive split into 3 partitions. One has Win Vista on, another has Win 7 Beta on and one is a 8Gb NTFS drive I made last night to install Win XP. I need this as I have a XDA Exec that I want to put Win Mob 6.1 on but needs XP to run Active Synch.
I have tried to run the XP install disk from both of the Win Vista and Win 7 drives but it does not give me the option to install. It's greyed out.
I then tried to boot from it but it said I had no disks installed and dumped me out.
Anyone have any ideas please? Is it because it is an older OS? Or does XP not like NTFS drives - is that why it said no drives were installed?
Doug
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Posted: 2009-02-26 20:16:11
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Xp will work with NTFS matey, you'll need to put the disc in and then boot from it, so F8 or so when your PC is starting up, select CD et voila you should be good to go from there...

other than that can you not use virtual machine that you can get from MS?
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Posted: 2009-02-26 20:18:15
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Hi Col,
Tried that and it said no drives installed!! Does it not recognise Vista and Win 7 perhaps?
This has me stumped to be honest!
Doug

Just downloading Virtual PC now. Hope it's easy to use.

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[ This Message was edited by: dougproctor on 2009-02-26 19:35 ]
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Posted: 2009-02-26 20:27:24
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do you need a sata driver to continue the installation when you boot off the disk?



also, i dont think MS VPC 2007 supports USB devices. VMware Server (free from the vmware server site) does though.

if you do get VMware Server, go for the 1.0.8 version as v2 is slow & annoying

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[ This Message was edited by: gaming_guy on 2009-02-26 20:32 ]
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Posted: 2009-02-26 21:29:39
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Thanks. At the moment have Virtual PC running although it does not see my other drives, only the one it is on. Doesn't see the USB flash disk either.
Oh well, will leave until the weekend.
Doug
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Posted: 2009-02-26 21:46:11
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What version of your XP is, try with some else XP (BLACK OR LAST) if you have them...
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Posted: 2009-02-26 22:40:03
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that is because MS VPC/vmware/virtualbox (or any other virtualization program for that matter) emulates all the components of a standard PC.

for example if the virtual machine running XP get attacked by viruses the host machine (for example, the host computer is running vista) will not get attacked by the viruses that infected the XP VM.

in vmware, to add a usb device to the VM you have to install vmware tools > shut down the VM > install the usb controller > start up the vm > click VM in the vmware window > scroll to removable devices and attach the usb device. as you can probably guess, i gave up on MS VPC a long time ago once i discovered vmware and virtualbox
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Posted: 2009-02-26 22:41:29
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Yep, it's coming off and I'll think of another way to do it. All for upgrading a XDA Exec from WM5 to WM6.1.
Thanks guys
Doug
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Posted: 2009-02-27 09:33:47
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have you got the make & model of the motherboard or computer?


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Posted: 2009-02-27 17:05:42
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Did MS add USB support to VPC 2007? AFAIK USB is not supported at all in VPC so that puts ActiveSync in a tight spot.

Better download the free trial of VMware Workstation. You're allowed to use it for free for 60 days and it supports USB just fine, although I haven't tried ActiveSync from inside an XP VM.

I have the same setup on my PC as you're trying to configure: Vista, XP Pro and Win7 in separate primary partitions and to switch between these at boot I use the Boot Manager in Paragon's Partition Manager. And I used XP for loading VNInt's excellent WM6.1 ROM on my XDA EXEC
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Posted: 2009-02-27 20:42:10
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