[pchelpers] Re: Question Vista & XP

Hi Jackie, thank you for the great information. I am just so behind in reading 
my email, someone in our hall died, and also we have the c.o. Will try your 
suggestions.
Trudy 
By the way - My laptop did not come with a restore disk either. I called Acer 
and asked for it - 2 days later I had the restore disk and a system disk. 



Jackie MacWhirter <jmacwhirter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi Trudy: I have an Acer Ferrari laptop the top of their line its says  its
designed for Windows XP Pro and Windows  Vista capable- I am dual booting
with no problems ... You can install Virtual PC 2007 and install any OS you
need to run your printers etc from within that on Vista--  but with an Acer
I don't think you would have a problem - I used Acronis to make another
partition  and installed Vista I have it as my primary choice-- 2nd choice
is XP I never lost any data... Make sure you have the version that will work
in Vista. When you are done making another partition , You can install XP
when you make another partition--  if you  do have another partition then 
you are
all set . You would have C: and the other partition would be called D: One
word of caution makes sure you don`t make your partition too small you will
need to install programs etc  to run your peripherals.
Another way to load up XP is use Daemon tools  its free I use it all the 
time you can install from within Vista...  You can call  or email Acer from 
their website they are quite fast in replying. Tell them your problem I am 
sure they will give yo a solution.... One word about buying any computer or 
laptops make sure you get the discs if they don't go to a vendor who will. 
Check out your laptop by doing this below.

Go to my Computer-- right click
select manage
Disk management and check your partitions

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trudy Alatorre" 
To: 

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:49 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Question Vista & XP


> Hi, I wanted to do the same thing on my laptop that has Vista on it. My
> brother sent me this link. What do you think about that?
> http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html
>
> Trudy
>
>
>
>
>
> Scott McNay  wrote:
> 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



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