To do this, type the following commands at a command prompt. Note In these commands, Drive is the drive where Windows 7 is installed. Note In this command, Description for earlier Windows version can be any text that you want.
Note In this command, x: is the drive letter for the active partition. Restart the computer. For more information, please refer to the following link:. Does it work? Office Office Exchange Server. Luckily we can do it without any 3rd party software. Right-click on the drive and select Shrink Volume. Right-click that and select New Simple Volume. When you get to the Format Partition section, NTFS is selected by default as the file system and you can leave that as is.
Boot from the XP installation disk and start the install process. In this example we made a 10GB partition for the XP install. I too want to dual boot XP on my Windows 10 machine. Difference is that my laptop came with Windows 8 and was recently upgraded to Windows I have found that I can start the process by holding f9 when starting Windows 10 which gives me a boot option menu to boot from usb or cd. The process runs until Windows tries to start. Have searched for a work around.
Have found several that claim to work with Windows 8, as yet nothing fits and works. I need to run XP program that does not interact well with later versions of Windows.
I do not need internet access so updates are not an issue. I tried the virtualization method, and cannot get usb ports to run correctly. I have been informed that this is an issue with virtualizing os. My concern was that the newer hardware may not be compatible with XP, and that seems to be my issue.
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About Us. Click the hard drive you wish to install your OS to. This will erase any data or OS currently installed on the hard drive. Once your hard drive is formatted, Windows XP will restart and present you with several options. Click the region and language options which apply to you.
Enter your name and other information to personalize your install. Enter your product key from the back of your CD case. This verifies you have a legal copy of Windows. Follow the onscreen instructions and enter the appropriate information. Time and Date, Usernames, Passwords, etc. Windows XP will restart once more and begin the final step. From Administrative Tools, click Computer Management.
Right click on the hard drive containing Windows XP. Click Shrink Volume. Enter the amount you wish to shrink the current volume by and click Shrink. This will be the size in MB available for the partition you will create for Windows 7.
Right click on the new unallocated region that was created after shrinking and click , New Partition. Click Primary Partition and click Next. Click the size of your new partition and click Next.
Assign a drive letter and click Next. Click Format this partition with the following settings. Click NTFS as your file system, default allocation unit size, click a name for the new volume and click Next. After creating your partition, it is time to install Windows 7.
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