Xp under windows 7

Go into Control Panel and select System. At the top of the screen, it will tell you; for example: Windows 7 Professional Copyright C Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved Service Pack 1. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 8. Does the question about 32 bit versus 64 bit refer to the host operating system or to XP? It refers to the host operating system. The 32 bit version requires the 86x version.

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About This Article. Featured Articles How to. Trending Articles How to. New Pages How to. My suggestion would be to save your data externally then wipe your hard drive. Then install XP first followed by 7. I haven't installed Windows in such a long time I can't remember if there is a built in partition manager.

Because the easiest solution is to partition beforehand. It will ask to you "Which partition? Windows 7 will be deleted, and your XP install will continue. Install a floppy drive and run the Windows 98SE startup disk. Then run fdisk and delete all partitions. Then boot to your XP disk and create new partitions. Technology has changed a lot, but, what we had 20 years ago still holds true today.

The oldest system must be installed first and so on and so on. The bigest issue to overcome today is the SATA drives. You can - But you will have to repair the boot manager from the Windows 7 disc. The reason why is XP will install it's own older version, and XP's boot manager can not boot to win 7. Repairing using the Win 7 disc will re-install Win7's boot manager, which can start XP.

There are lots of different ways to update your system, including a complete format followed by an install of XP be careful of driver issues and any data will be lost. You could perhaps also look at some kind of dual boot scenario and then you can keep your windows 7 install.

That should solve your compatibility issues with least effort. Upgrade can be done online and is pretty quick. I'm going to make a wild statement and say that this will be a horrible experience. Installing XP on a modern machine is going to painful because one the hardware is totally different from what XP was designed for 10 years ago, and secondly, XP won't have the drivers written for said hardware.

Quite a few new laptops preinstalled with Windows 7 are 64bit machines. Video card, webcams, wireless networking, USB3 support, all of those may or may not end up working. If you stil have a laptop that is 64bit, most XP disks are 32bit, and that's going to physically limit you from the ammount of memory that can be used with your machine.

Many new macines now-a-days comes with at least 4gigs of memory, and can easily be upgraded to 8 because of the 64bit hardware. You can install the 32bit OS on the machine, deal with the hardware issues and end up limiting yourself to less memory than what's installed on the laptop.

Since Windows 7 has excellent support for XP mode, and if you have Windows 7 Professional or better, it's free to download and use, I have to go against the grain here and say keep what you have and use XP mode for a much better experience.

If you can run an extra hard drive, unplug the win 7 hard drive, install win xp on the second hard drive, plug the first and use F8 key during boot to pick the drive you want to boot from. Simply delete win 7 reserved partion on boot screen and create new a partition on preinstalled win 7 drive by just removing space from current partitions, this will leave no trace of win 7 on the hard drive, and you can easily boot win xp without getting disc errors.

Sign up to join this community. It works, and it works well. I found installing and working with the Windows XP Mode to be significantly easier and more satisfying than any other virtual computing environment I have used. Millions of consumers still rely on Windows XP and Microsoft is banking on them making the switch to Windows 7. It is bad enough that there is no seamless upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7.

The least Microsoft could have done was to provide consumers with Windows XP Mode to make the transition smoother. Tony Bradley is an information security and unified communications expert with more than a decade of enterprise IT experience. He tweets as PCSecurityNews and provides tips, advice and reviews on information security and unified communications technologies on his site at tonybradley.