RE: XyWrite and Windows 7
- From: mike shupp <mikeshupp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:17:59 -0800
My sugestion: Install Win 7 64-bit -- that's what you're going to want for
Windows in a few years.
Then download the Virtual PC and the Win XP emulator. Run XyWrite under
WinXP . Or install
VPC 2007 and run XyWrite on the Win98 emulator.
Better yet, install Virtual Box or VMWare and run XyWrite in emulated DOS.
The clean install of Win 7 worked like a charm on my system -- granted I have 8
GB of RAM memory
and about 1150 GB of disk space. Somewhat to my surprise,. the installation
did not insist on
formatting the paritition I chose; it actually backed up my Vista installation
so I could gracefully
change my mind. Took about 20 minutes and needed minimal intervention by me.
You do want to give Win 7 (or Win Vista) the first partition on your hard
drive, alas, and things go more
smoothly if that is the master hard drive on your system, assuming you have 2
or more drives. But
the BOOTREC utility will save you if problems arise (I have 4 drives, and
Windows is on one of the
slaves, so I had a few problems until I googled the error message).
Leave the users partition on the system partition to avoid possible grief
later. You can always back
up it up if you're worried about losing it. The "libraries" I'm so far
ignoring; they chew up 50 MBytes
on my system partition and I don't expect to ever use them, but that's me, I
don't like general purpose
storage directories.
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