Dual Boot - Vista Home Premium & XP Pro

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Gordon said:
You could use virtual PC and install XP in that....
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I already am using Virtual PC 2007 with Windows XP Pro. It works fine but I
wanted to be able to plug in USB devices (other than a mouse, a printer or
using Shared folders to mount an external hard drive or flash drive).
 
Bruce Chambers said:
Dual-booting is no longer necessary in a great many situations. Why not
download a Virtual Machine application, such as Microsoft's VirtualPC 2007
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp?) or Innotek's VirtualBox
(http://www.virtualbox.org/) and run WinXP and your legacy applications
within a virtual computer? Both are free and work with Vista.

NOTE: Microsoft does not support the use of VirtualPC 2007 on Vista Home
editions, but several people have reported that it works. Your results
may vary.

Bruce Chambers
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Virtual PC 2007 works just fine in the Vista Home Premium edition. At
installation, a warning pops up indicating that it is being installed on an
unsupported system. I just blew past that warning and, as far as I can
tell, as is well on the VPC front.
 
he has.

refer to posting
numero uno.

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