Recent content by Don Degidio

Well, no success with the XP Pro VHD because it was larger than 127GB. Should have read about that first when using Disk2VHD. :-(

Strollin, Was easier than I thought to create a VHD. Downloaded DISK2VHD from MS website and it created a 168GB file for my XP primary drive. Had to rename the .vhdx extension to .vhd for the Virtual PC machine to see the file in Win7.

Stroliin, I may give this method a try as I do have a Seagate 750GB Hybrid drive with Win7 64 Ultimate installed and also the virtual machine and XP Pro. Did check the link and it looks a little daunting. Wish there was a Youtube video showing the process. :-)

It took 3 hrs 10 minutes to install Win7 64 Ultimate with all 138 updates. PCmover took 41 minutes to finish, but only moved 18 of the over 100 programs installed in XP Pro. Have not yet gone back into PCmover to use the Advanced selection. Just wanted to take a break.

Strollin, I have already installed Win 7 64 Ultimate on a hard drive and installed the virtual machine and XP Pro. My main concern was running Outlook Express. I have the store folder on G drive in folder OE. Running the virtual XP, it won't let me select that folder as my store folder. If I...

Guess I'll find out today how long it will take. :-)

Mark, Have PC Mover. I'm going to try 32 bit Win 7, as I have many 32 bit programs. If that works, will try 64 bit Win 7.

I also have ATI Catalyst. I use Ghost to clone the drive, then use that drive for whatever I want to do. Drives are inexpensive. :-) Cloning also makes it easy to move to a larger drive. I'm going to pick up a larger drive tomorrow, and hopefully this time can get all my XP software into Win 7.

Mark, Thanks for the info. No home network here, so that should ease the load. I also have Office 2003. Did you run Win 7 Upgrade Advisor to see what other software might cause any problems? Don

From what I have read, you can install a copy of Win XP into Win7 and run it inside of Win7. Is it possible to copy an older Win XP installation (and all it's associated loaded software) into that Win XP install? I had tried to upgrade XP Pro SP3 with a Vista 32 Ultimate Retail and would have...