Re: XP and Vista
- From: "LVTravel" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:50:46 -0400
"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Louis126" <Louis126@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messageWell, let me first say, I owe this person an apology for my crass
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Hello All,
I am a Computer Networking major at a small community college in the
town
where I live. I know that someone else presently has a very similar
question,
but I feel mine is specific to my own need, so I will present it here
in
hopes someone will be able to help.
My laptop was pre-loaded with Vista Home Basic. However, my wife has
a
laptop also (which I gave her when I bought this newer one), which
was
pre-loaded with XP Professional. Like the person who has also already
posted
a question in this community similar to my question, I too have a
software
program (In my case I need to use it for a class I am taking at the
college I
am now attending). The program was designed to run in XP, and does
not do
well with Vista.
So my question is, can I use the Reinstallation CD (which came with
my
Dell
laptop), which has Windows XP Professional on it, and create a DUAL
BOOT
on
my Toshiba laptop which is currently running Windows Vista Home
Basis.
I am aware that, one of the things I would need to do in order to
determine
if this would be possible would be to find the information on my
Vista
laptop
which gives a rundown of the partitions and drives. However, for the
life
of
me, I cannot seem to find that information on this laptop. It seems
like
Vista hides stuff like this pretty well (I know that it's much easier
to
find
stuff like this in XP, in my opinion).
So, if anyone knows anything about what I am asking, could you please
respond, and let me know all of the steps I would need to take in
order to
get the ball rolling on this DUAL BOOT (if it would even be possible
to do
such a thing, as I have described here).
Thanks!
Louis126
1. If you do, you're in violation of your OEM license agreement.
2. Practically speaking, it's extremely unlikely to work, and will
probably
hose your new laptop. Reason? Your new laptop uses new/different
hardware
that requires different drivers than those on your OEM CD.
If you intend to take the risk, at least make *sure* the new laptop OEM
has
XP drivers for *all* devices in the new laptop.
Also, you have additional adventures coming your way in the boot
sector.
comments
about licensure violations. I was out of line making those comments, and
I
apologize. I had been going through a few other posts here, and was
finding
that to be a common issue (by which some of the people were needing to
be
corrected about). I guess I had always thought licensure issues only
arose
under such conditions as whenever someone would make a copy of software
and
sell it for their own profit (or even when they would give it away). I
always
thought that these constituted what we commonly refer to as 'piracy'.
But
evidently I was not entirely correct. Thanks for clearing this up for
me.
On behalf of all who post here, thanks for the apology. We sometimes
need one.
The reason there are so many License Police here is that we are trying to
lower the amount of pirating of software that does happen but more
importantly we are trying to prevent people from wasting their time
installing software that won't work or will fail when the person attempts
to update the software. People just don't know because they either don't
read the EULA, don't understand it or can't find it (granted it is buried
in some of the software packaging.)
LV, for future reference you can find the OEM or retail license at
C:\Windows\System32\license. You can also find all the retail licenses
at:
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/
Actually Colin, I know where all the EULAs are stored but the average person
doesn't, that is why I said they are buried. The license at the location
you specified on the C drive is only available at that location after the
installation has finished. Do you know where to find it on the Vista DVD?
I do! Root of CD\Sources\License\en-us\ and then select the type of
disk(retail=default, Eval, or OEM)\ then select the version of the software.
As I said, buried.
As for the URL you posted, I have known about that site for a long time,
IIRC, I have posted it before in helping others. If you type the URL posted
on the Vista box it also takes you to the site.
.
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