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Hi
I haven't tried Meade's solution but it looks OK.
However I will comment on the Microsoft XP mode.
I have Windows 7 64 bit ultimate and was able to install the XP mode so I did not know it only worked on the proffesional versions.
In any case I found it very mediocre in performance particularly in screen accelerators. It was a mammoth download two 300MB + programs.
Instead I used the VMware virtual program (there is a free version) and installed XP SP3 from my original XP disk. This gave me a far superior virtual version of XP. I also made a virtual Linux and Windows 98.
However the best solution was to install XP first and then Windows 7 in advanced mode and dual boot.
If you don't have the windows 7 disc then there is a trick I use to transfer the original windows 7 to a new disc that has XP installed.
Firstly backup an image of your original OS onto another disk then format the HDD with at least two partitions. Install XP. Next get a Windows 7 disk (borrow it) and start the install program in advanced mode. You may not get very far without the key but it will give the basic start up and BCD boot sector.
Make sure your XP version has the program to restore your image then run this to re install the original Windows 7 image into the newly created partition. I don't know if this works universally but it did for me.
If this does not work another way is to use two HDD and then get "easyBCD" and edit the BCD to add your XP disk as a new system. The problem of dual booting occurs only if Windows 7 is your primary OS
Barry
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