Sent: 04/13/2007
From: oldskibum
Message:Thanks Brian. That's what I thought. Although I'm not sure what you meant
by cheap. The cheapest I saw new on Amazon was $159, but I'll keep looking.
Don't want to risk buying a used copy.
"Brian" wrote:
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> If you still had a PC with XP on it you could migrate your actual install to
> a virtual hard disk otherwise think you probably will need to by XP again.
> The only good thing is that it's cheap now :/
>
> "oldskibum" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > My problem is a little different than "basic instructions" from Big Dog.
> > I
> > have a laptop running Vista, but I want to add an XP VPC for legacy
> > applications. My problem is that I don't have an XP disk. I had an old
> > PC
> > running XP that was an upgrade from ME. I no longer have this PC. All I
> > have now is an Acronis bootable XP recovery disk. This does not work ( I
> > did
> > not really think it would ) when the program asks for the bootable media.
> > Question: am I just out of luck? Do I have to pony up for another copy of
> > XP
> > just to make this work?
>
Sent: 04/13/2007
From: "Brian" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:If you still had a PC with XP on it you could migrate your actual install to
a virtual hard disk otherwise think you probably will need to by XP again.
The only good thing is that it's cheap now :/
"oldskibum" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...
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> My problem is a little different than "basic instructions" from Big Dog.
> I
> have a laptop running Vista, but I want to add an XP VPC for legacy
> applications. My problem is that I don't have an XP disk. I had an old
> PC
> running XP that was an upgrade from ME. I no longer have this PC. All I
> have now is an Acronis bootable XP recovery disk. This does not work ( I
> did
> not really think it would ) when the program asks for the bootable media.
> Question: am I just out of luck? Do I have to pony up for another copy of
> XP
> just to make this work?
Sent: 04/13/2007
From: "Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:"oldskibum" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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Yes.
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> Do I have to pony up for another copy of XP just to make this work?