Leading on from this a little......VOL-FCR likes Windows XP, so I'm told...so here is a little how 2 for getting XP running on Windows 7 Home, should work on Windows 8 also. I need this for a little business venture I'm trying to get into - the software I want to run works only on Windows XP Professional.
It's still work in progress so I'll add to it as I go but here's where I got to.....
Download XP Mode from here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...s.aspx?id=8002
Then use 7-Zip or another archive tool to open the EXE file as an archive.
Within that archive, find the "sources/xpm" file within it, and extract that folder to your hard drive.
In the extracted xpm file, you'll find a file called VirtualXPVHD. Rename it with a VHD extension.
From Start menu, type Computer Management & choose Disk Management. From the Disk Management console, follow these steps:
Right-click Disk Management and then click Attach VHD. Follow the prompts that appear & find your 'VirtualXPVHD.vhd'
The another drive should open as a partition with Windows XP components (mine is called D:.......before I only had C: drive).
Now I am installing programs that I want to run in XP to this new drive - D:/program files/Vol-FCR for example
That's as far as I got. Next step will be starting the computer up from the XP drive (D: ).......
My files are all backed up - so I'm not worried about losing any. Remember if you are playing with operating systems pls back up your files, as there is a chance you may need to do a total reinstallation!!
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