Found the way!
I bought an XP upgrade retail and I will get MS to validate the new
PK.(Otherwise I'll do a repair install on the top)
At the end I didn't use XP mode and Virtual PC but Storagecraft to image and
the free Virtual Box that works great in Windows 7
GuidoElia
HELPPC
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Da: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Inviato: venerdì 17 settembre 2010 16.51
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: How to restore XP Image in XP Mode
I bought a new W7 Pro laptop at home a while back, getting pro mainly for the
XP mode. I used disk2vhd to create a vhd file from my old XP laptop (that I've
wiped), copied it over, and thought I could replace the default .vhd in XP
mode. But, after it just wouldn't work, some googling seemed to indicate that
there is something special about the basic XP-mode freshly installed .vhd
provided via the download, and that you HAVE to start clean from that, for
anything you want to run or deploy-hence the licensing/activation issues. I
also read something that you are only legal to run the clean-installed vhd as
the free copy of XP, anything else and you have to license.
So, in my case, I found that most of the apps I wanted to run didn't come thru
well anyway (games, video driver in XP mode is not that great), so even though
I reinstalled some stuff, I don't really use it that much. I did end up
mounting the .vhd file of my old computer in my W7 OS to access as a nice way
to get to my old files though-that is a very cool new feature of W7 and R2.
If you do come up with a legal way to do it though, please share!
-Bonnie
From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 10:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: How to restore XP Image in XP Mode
The magic I am looking for is not being asked for activation of Windows!
GuidoElia
HELPPC
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Da: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Inviato: giovedì 16 settembre 2010 20.20
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: How to restore XP Image in XP Mode
It's just a vhd. You back up the vhd and you restore the vhd. Nothing magic
there...
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How to restore XP Image in XP Mode
And get license working without asking for activation ?
Or Xp Mode in Win7 is intended only for fresh install ?
TIA
GuidoElia
HELPPC
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