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| 799210 | 2009-08-07 20:45:00 | Friend has a new Vista machine but wants to also be able to occasionally dual boot to his old computer's XP drive (it has an accounting program on it that isn't compatible with Vista). Is it just a matter of putting the old drive in and using EasyBCD to add it to the boot list? |
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| 799211 | 2009-08-07 21:27:00 | XP isn't so good when it comes to moving HDs to other machines... For the best chance of success uninstall all chipset drivers before you install the HD. And make sure that if the drive saw SATA configured as IDE on the old computer, its the same on the new(or else it'll BSOD) Blam |
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| 799212 | 2009-08-07 22:18:00 | Yes, I was sort of forgetting the machine change aspect! However, I have had several successful migrations of XP so am not terribly worried about that . Anyway, we can go the route of installing XP to a new partition as an alternative . I am pretty sure he has an XP install disk . Maybe the best answer, anyway . Cheers . |
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