Gaming I want to have Windows 7 and XP on one computer.

[EJames2100]

It's actually fairly easy to Dual Boot 7 and XP tbh.

It's basically partitioning your hard drive, installing xp and using EasyBCD2.0 to re-writing them mbr to 7's, roughly anyways, I'll take a look for the guide I used.

When it boots up it gives me the option to choose which to boot from, easy peasy.

Edit: think this is it;
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-...ndows-7-xp.html

 

[Schlupi]

Ok guys. I decided against a dual boot and got VirtualBox/VMLite Workstation up and running successfully. Runs great. All my XP only stuff is working fine.

Thanks for the help, guys!

 

[MrCooper]

I like this thread still going

 

[Schlupi]

Ok. So I cannot get any USB devices working on Oracle VirtualBox.

I installed the extension pack, and when in the manager none of the devices show up.

When in the Virtual PC, the USB devices show up at the top USB devices section, BUT when I click them to (install the drivers?) it just says error in Windows 7, and nothing happens in Virtual XP.

WTF? My USB Hard drive does not get recognized, my flash drives, nothing. How do I get them working?

Once again I am using Oracle VirtualBox with Windows XP SP 3.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Ok. So I cannot get any USB devices working on Oracle VirtualBox.

I installed the extension pack, and when in the manager none of the devices show up.

When in the Virtual PC, the USB devices show up at the top USB devices section, BUT when I click them to (install the drivers?) it just says error in Windows 7, and nothing happens in Virtual XP.

WTF? My USB Hard drive does not get recognized, my flash drives, nothing. How do I get them working?

Once again I am using Oracle VirtualBox with Windows XP SP 3.

I think there's a USB Device menu that you have to select which devices to allow the virtual machine to access.

 

[Sausage Head]

You can just install Windows XP on another partition.