[pchelpers] Re: pchelpers Digest V7 #267

Hi Scott

Yes I would have installed in order - XP-then Vista ----but the  Acer 7" 
laptop was new and came without the option of XP so I took it the way it was 
thinking all I had to worry about was learning how to use Vista. However 
surprise when I found my printers did not work. Plus Vista makes the machine 
so slow even with 1 GB ram, whereas my old 866 IBM with 256 ram just seemed 
much faster with XP pro.  Yes the drivers are listed under Vista but they do 
not work. An error message keeps coming up all the time. I contacted Canon 
but they are very vague about what to do saying some drivers have been 
provided for their products. So I want to put XP pro on the machine also and 
simplify everything as I use multiple printers

David





 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:25:45 -0500
From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [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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