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missed that XP Pro try peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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xp isn't xp
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missed that XP Pro try peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Shenan Stanley wrote:
John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? John |
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Shenan Stanley wrote:
John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? John |
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John wrote:
old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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John wrote:
old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Shenan Stanley wrote:
John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista John John |
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Shenan Stanley wrote:
John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista John John |
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Shenan Stanley wrote:
John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista John John |
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John wrote:
old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Shenan Stanley wrote: Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? John wrote: Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista Unless you bought retail copies - you are not, in accordance with the End-User License Agreement, supposed to transfer the OSes from one machine to another. Technically - chances are it will work, activate, function forever. It does not follow the letter of the agreement, however. Not to mention that unless you actually meant you were going to give your son the *whole* machine with Vista installed - *I* wouldn't install Vista on a machine with less than a 2.3GHz processor (preferrably dual core) and 1.5GB+ of memory at this point. The same goes for WIndows 7 - except I would up it to 3GB memory. ;-) It'll use it - trust me. My opinion, of course. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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John wrote:
old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Shenan Stanley wrote: Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? John wrote: Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista Unless you bought retail copies - you are not, in accordance with the End-User License Agreement, supposed to transfer the OSes from one machine to another. Technically - chances are it will work, activate, function forever. It does not follow the letter of the agreement, however. Not to mention that unless you actually meant you were going to give your son the *whole* machine with Vista installed - *I* wouldn't install Vista on a machine with less than a 2.3GHz processor (preferrably dual core) and 1.5GB+ of memory at this point. The same goes for WIndows 7 - except I would up it to 3GB memory. ;-) It'll use it - trust me. My opinion, of course. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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xp isn't xp
John wrote:
old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Shenan Stanley wrote: Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? John wrote: Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista Unless you bought retail copies - you are not, in accordance with the End-User License Agreement, supposed to transfer the OSes from one machine to another. Technically - chances are it will work, activate, function forever. It does not follow the letter of the agreement, however. Not to mention that unless you actually meant you were going to give your son the *whole* machine with Vista installed - *I* wouldn't install Vista on a machine with less than a 2.3GHz processor (preferrably dual core) and 1.5GB+ of memory at this point. The same goes for WIndows 7 - except I would up it to 3GB memory. ;-) It'll use it - trust me. My opinion, of course. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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xp isn't xp
Shenan Stanley wrote:
John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Shenan Stanley wrote: Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? John wrote: Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista Unless you bought retail copies - you are not, in accordance with the End-User License Agreement, supposed to transfer the OSes from one machine to another. Technically - chances are it will work, activate, function forever. It does not follow the letter of the agreement, however. Not to mention that unless you actually meant you were going to give your son the *whole* machine with Vista installed - *I* wouldn't install Vista on a machine with less than a 2.3GHz processor (preferrably dual core) and 1.5GB+ of memory at this point. The same goes for WIndows 7 - except I would up it to 3GB memory. ;-) It'll use it - trust me. My opinion, of course. It's single core 3+ mhz I think... it was a gamer's dream 4 years ago or something. I put 4g ram in it and loaded vista 64 bit on it and it seems to be dong ok. I took the vista 64 off my computer cause I screwed up the installation. Rather than start over I'll just wait for windows 7. I run my regular vista now. Jon |
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xp isn't xp
Shenan Stanley wrote:
John wrote: old computer supposed to be xp home. Says so when I boot it. New computer, one drive 64 bit vista, the other drive from the old computer. The old xp won't boot so I tried to use my xp-pro disk to fix it. But just says there is a partition with "Another system" on the drive... it doesn't recognize it as xp and wants to delete it. Any possibilities here? From my 64 bit Vista drive is there a way to look at the old drive (as slave) and find out what system is really on it? peter wrote: Lets point out a few things here The old computers hardware was different from new computer...therefore drivers do not match. New computer was setup to boot Vista..you CANNOT just install another drive in the slave position and expect it to boot The BIOS looks at the Vista drive..finds the MBR and Boots It doesn't bother looking at the XP drive. Under Vista you should be able to see the drive with Explorer or under Computer Management/Disk management. If you really want to boot off the XP drive you will need to disconnect the Vista drive and using your XP CD you will need to do a repair install. Be prepared with XP drivers for new computer. You gave us no hardware information so finding the XP drivers for your specific computer is your task. Also if you have installed all of the service packs you will need a "slipstreamed" version of XP pro with the service packs slipstreamed into it or you will end up having to do all of the "upgrades" again. Once you have this done you can reconnect your Vista drive. Now if you want to boot from XP you will need to enter the BIOS at boot and Change the boot sequence so that the XP drive is 1st choice. John wrote: This is what I tried to do. Disconnected the Vista drive. Put xp cd and booted from that. Tried to do a repair install but it didn't even offer it. I was hoping it would find the correct drivers on the internet. The xp disk I used was unrelated to the original xp disk which is long gone. I have given up... it was just a thought. Shenan Stanley wrote: And it was a different edition - negating your subject line. XP *is* XP. But there are many different editions. You tried to use Professional to repair Home. ;-) John wrote: Why wouldn't it offer to upgrade it then? Shenan Stanley wrote: Probably because your copy of Windows XP Professional is likely an OEM licensed copy - OEM licensed copies (unmodified) cannot perform upgrades. Is your Windows XP Professional Edition CD an OEM copy? Did it come with another computer and/or did you purchase it at a lower cost that you saw in retail stores and it was in a cardboard-backed cellophane wrapped container - no hard plastic case with a sticker on it, no fancy box, etc? John wrote: Yeah... got it off of Craig's List. Met the guy in a parking lot and yada yada... screwed again for $40.00 or so. this is a son's old old computer. I just wanted to keep it going till I install windows 7 and give him my vista Unless you bought retail copies - you are not, in accordance with the End-User License Agreement, supposed to transfer the OSes from one machine to another. Technically - chances are it will work, activate, function forever. It does not follow the letter of the agreement, however. Not to mention that unless you actually meant you were going to give your son the *whole* machine with Vista installed - *I* wouldn't install Vista on a machine with less than a 2.3GHz processor (preferrably dual core) and 1.5GB+ of memory at this point. The same goes for WIndows 7 - except I would up it to 3GB memory. ;-) It'll use it - trust me. My opinion, of course. It's single core 3+ mhz I think... it was a gamer's dream 4 years ago or something. I put 4g ram in it and loaded vista 64 bit on it and it seems to be dong ok. I took the vista 64 off my computer cause I screwed up the installation. Rather than start over I'll just wait for windows 7. I run my regular vista now. Jon |
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