[pchelpers] Re: Question Vista & XP

Hi David,

Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 7:33:33 AM, you wrote:

DP> I bought a new laptop (Acer) with Windows Vista on it and now my
DP> older mobile printers (Canon BJC 50 & BJC 80) will not work. Is
DP> there any way I can also load Windows XP Pro on my machine (like a
DP> dual boot system) without having to delete the Vista - just in
DP> case I decide to use it exclusively in the future. I did not get
DP> recovery disks with machine . If I just put the XP Pro disk in the
DP> machine to load --it tells me the OS I have is newer and will not
DP> load. I want to keep Vista on the machine also. Plse advise

Why don't they work? What happens when you try them? Vista has drivers
for them; I can see them listed on mine, as "Canon Bubble-Jet BJC-50"
and "Canon Bubble-Jet BJC-80".  If you don't see them listed, you
might try other Canon drivers of the same general class (such as other
BJC drivers, but not imageRunner driver).

You are supposed to install OSes in approximate order of introduction,
so that Vista can be installed after XP (either an upgrade or in a
separate partition), but not vice versa.

In any event, you'd need a separate partition to install Windows to,
in order to avoid overwriting stuff in Program Files.

You should have an option on the menu somewhere for creating recovery
discs; probably listed under "Acer" or something like that. If you
don't see such, call Acer and ask, or look in whatever (if any)
Getting Started documentation you got with it.

-- 
Scott.



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