How to install XP on a Win7 system

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Interesting, I haven'y been successful in getting any of my really old
legacy 16-bit software (8088/8086) or versions that ran on the 386/486
software to run on my 64-bit Windows 7 w/ XP-Mode.

Not sure why you would be having problems. For me, all my old stuff
just works in that environment - and I'm talking about stuff from that
era as well - Borland Turbo Pascal 3 compiler, my old DOS command-line
utilities and games, etc. If it still ran in a command prompt in XP,
it still runs in XP Mode. Sometimes you have to tweak the settings,
make sure paths are correct, etc., but they run...

Whereas, on the 32-bit Win 7 Pro machine w/ Virtual PC 2007, I can
install and run all the software under the original OS it was designed
for.

I've long since replaced the few things that wouldn't work in a command
prompt so I don't have much need for pure native environments like that
for anything other than XP, and that only for the 16-bit stuff. I've
yet to find a 32-bit program that has a problem in 64-bit. I'm sure
they are out there, but I don't use any of them.

BTW, I have saved my copies of all my OS's going back to MS-DOS 5.0.
Part of the reason being of course, they are mostly upgrade versions.

I still have all the original install media from every OS I've ever run
as well. I go all the way back to DOS 3 myself, though I had bootleg
copies of DOS 2 that I played with at the time. Never saw any reason
to use the older versions in preference to the newer versions though.
Not sure why I keep all of them, but I'm a pack rat that way.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I still have all the original install media from every OS I've ever run
as well. I go all the way back to DOS 3 myself, though I had bootleg
copies of DOS 2 that I played with at the time. Never saw any reason
to use the older versions in preference to the newer versions though.
Not sure why I keep all of them, but I'm a pack rat that way.

Historian, not pack rat

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Historian, not pack rat

I'll have to remember that ;-)

 

[TheGunslinger]

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I still have all the original install media from every OS I've ever run
as well. I go all the way back to DOS 3 myself, though I had bootleg
copies of DOS 2 that I played with at the time. Never saw any reason
to use the older versions in preference to the newer versions though.
Not sure why I keep all of them, but I'm a pack rat that way.

I tossed all my OS's prior to MS-DOS 5.

Wish I had kept my IBM OS/2 sets though. I had 2.1, Warp 3, and Warp
4. I gave them to my older son who auctioned them off on eBay, I
think.

I kept all my kool games for that era. I have the complete DOS
versions of Infocom's ZORK I, II, III, and boxes more of games and
other software.

Other's I like to play are: 7th Guest and 11th Hour.

Some play well under Virtual-PC 2007, but others crash, and only play
well on the original OS they were designed for.

That's why I maintain at least one or two older CPU PC's.: a 700 MHz
Pentium-III and a 2.4 GHz Pentium-4 Rambus.

MJR