Can XP Be Run From An Alternate HD On A PC?
Jun 30, 2008
For reasons that I have yet to determine, my current computer is killing motherboards. I am assuming it is a virus so my friend is going to do a virus scan from his MAC to make sure my hard drive is clean. I decided to order a new HP (my current computer was home-built with the assistance from an IT savvy friend). To be more specific, it's model M8430F from best buy. Now for my question: Assuming my hard drive is not the root cause for the motherboard failure, it has XP and some 3D design programs that I use on it. I'm a little nervous about using Vista on the new computer to run these programs. Therefore I was wondering if I can install my current hard drive (SATA) into my new computer (HP M8430F) which is Vista based.
I'm not 100% computer na?ve? although it makes sense in my head that I should be able to boot from either hard drive I understand that there's a lot that I DON?T understand and therefore am posting here.
New computer with Vista Hard drive from old computer with XP = Can I install XP hard drive and choose to boot from it when I want to use specific programs currently installed on it?
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Mar 5, 2008
A bit ago a person on here said they were able to upgrade their academic vista ultimate 32bit from their school to the 64bit version through the alternate media order. HOW? I have tried and it says offer not found. I have a copy now of 32bit vista that is doing me no good at all since I have 4gigs of ram and a 64bit processor.
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May 24, 2008
I have several contacts in my Windows Mail Contacts that I have mutiple e-mail addresses set up. (Using Vista). When I start typing the contact name in the "Send" window, only the "Preferred" e-mail shows up. How can I select their alternate e-mail address in the "Send" window?' I have tried right clicking and just about everyting else. There must be an easy way to bring up a list of all the e-mails in a contact (both preferred and the others) so I can then select which one or ones to send the message to.
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Jan 15, 2010
About 3 days ago I visited this URL...
Windows Vista home page
I wanted to order the Windows Vista x64 DVD that already had SP2 on it since the media I have is a version of Vista without any service pack on it which has the memory bug where Vista has issues installing on systems that have over 2GB of RAM.
I should have ordered the media when I saw it on the page, because now if you follow that link, you get redirected to...
Windows Vista home page
Which pretends to be about Vista, but shoves 7 in your face. But anyway, I'd like to know if anyone knows where that page went? I desperately need this Vista x64 with SP2 media, as my Win7 beta will begin to expire soon, and I'm not ready to upgrade to 7 just yet. TIA. :-)
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Mar 26, 2008
I purchased the business version of vista from Windows marketplace, then I performed an anytime upgrade to Ultimate, now I would like to change to vista 64 but I don???t have a disk and I am not sure that my current key will work. I called Microsoft about obtaining alternate media (64 bit disk) however they informed me that I couldn???t get a dish through the alternate media plan because I bought from marketplace and not a retail canter. This is nuts to me. There must be some reasonable way to get a 64 bit disk in which my key will work without purchasing an entirely new version of vista. I mean dang I paid a ton for this, and now with me still playing fair they won't send me a 64 bit disk or let me purchase one for a minimal fee. Surely there must be some avenue I have over looked.
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