In my PC I had Three drives, My 300Gb 'C' drive, My 1Tb 'D' drive nad my new SSD.Īfter listening to the advice here I didn't even bother to try and put XP on the SSD, so I tried it on both C and D drives. In the end I finally found the time to back up my workstuff and installed the new SSD. I had a quick look at some of the other VM's and they had similar problems or complicated workarounds.
It seemed the easiest and simplest way to give it a testdrive.ĭue to the very old virtual video driver that you are forced to run, it didn't really work. I tried the Virtual Machine from MS in the end. SSD has arrived now so I can mess around a bit as I'll be doing a clean install. I've installed the MS virtual XP machine and will have a play with it later. Not really dealt with a virtual machine before. You can have several virtual machines e.g. You can then optimise SSD for Windows 7 and not worry about XP. You still need to activate windows licences (however this is only necessary after 30 days - so for a trial no real need to initially activate).
Once you have setup the virtual machine, you can save it - i.e. This is a great solution for occasional use of an operating system, and avoids all hassle of dual boot setup etc, I personally found virtualbox slightly easier but it is your choice - try both indeed. virtualbox or vmware (both free- just search google for homepages). There are several well known virtual machine packages e.g.
You are not really on a new PC - it just pretends that you are. In case you do not know what a virtual machine is, it is simply program running on host os (say windows 7) which emulates a new PC on which you can load any operating system (e.g. Why not try using a virtual machine first.
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