Hi there just bought myself a cheap internal hard drive today to put XP and having it as a slave drive. Both my HArd drives are SATA so I thought instead of trying to install XP on a Partition which I have had problems with I will just buy a second hard drive. Anyway got it all ready put in the XP disk and it didn't work some error. Unfourunatly it stopped my Windows 7 working as welll! Horror had to reinstall from a System image. incidently I couldn't restore some of my games and programs that I hasd saved it only restored the systemn image. Does this mean I have to do a system Image every time I want to have things backed up!

It should be easy to install XP on a fresh new drive with nothing to do with Windows 7 at all what am I doing wrong?

My PC is a Foxconn duel core AMD 64 bit
using Windows 7 64 bit
Main HD 1 TB
2nd HD 160 GBs

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Comment by Paul on April 30, 2010 at 6:15pm: I agree with Tracy. Virtual machines are the way to go in most cases. I do like my PC laptop to be dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu's latest, but for the most part, I prefer VMs. VirtualBox isn't bad, but the newer versions of VMware are a bit better. Even on my Mac I choose to run Windows 7 as a VM and now use Apple's BootCamp to dual boot. I use my Windows VM to game and have no problems at all. Cool thing about a VM is that you don't have to partition and repartition your dive every time you want to add an os or remove one.

Comment by Ian Singleton on April 20, 2010 at 9:05am: Yeah that might do it if i unplugged the drive with windows 7 on it then install XP like it would be on a normal PC. Better make sure I back up everything first however, now to to sort out windows back up which is playing up. Cheers

Comment by Ian Singleton on April 20, 2010 at 9:02am: Unfortunately you can't record in a virtual machine is has to be on a separate drive if I want to use my sound card a real pain. Also I don't think my PC is capable of virtualisation thanks for the idea though

Comment by Tracy on April 20, 2010 at 6:21am: Virtual machines are the way to go now, IMHO.

Pay for VMWare or do it open-source~ it's so much easier than dual booting & pretty much avails you of most you will wish to do...

T

Comment by WereBo on April 20, 2010 at 5:27am: The way I got round it was to install XP and set everything up on 1 drive, then disconnect that drive and plug in the 2nd drive and install Win-7.

Once everything was working well, just reconnect the XP drive - One of the Windows created the boot-menu for me, and they've played happily ever since.

Comment by Ian Singleton on April 20, 2010 at 2:55am: Ah right yes the floppy disk that was the last time I saw one of those!, unfortunately I don't have a floppy drive on this PC I upgraded after my XP machine went to the great Microsoft cloud in the sky. So put Windows 7 on here first then found that certain things don't work in Windows 7 like sound recording using my creative sound card, thanks for that I will check out that

Comment by JT on April 19, 2010 at 9:09pm: The easiest way to do this is to have XP running first and then install Windows 7 on the second HDD. The Boot.ini file that XP creates will be replaced by the new way that Windows 7 does things.

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