First-time poster; long-time hardware geek goin' back to the DOS days...
I was recently forced to replace a computer in a big hurry, and I got stuck with the dreaded "Vista-64"... After having many Vista-64 probs (including it not recognizing my work remote VPN) I'd now like to install Virtual PC 2007..... but it seems I'd need to have my old Win XP OS on a boot disk... which I don't have because my old computer was an OEM.... You can see the conundrum...
The old XP motherboard is totally dead... but I still have the legal product key label, pasted on the box...
So, how can I get a bootable disc version of the XP version I legally owned previously, so that I can use it to install VPC 2007 on my Vista computer? (Or am I just screwed??)
--Pamela
I was recently forced to replace a computer in a big hurry, and I got stuck with the dreaded "Vista-64"... After having many Vista-64 probs (including it not recognizing my work remote VPN) I'd now like to install Virtual PC 2007..... but it seems I'd need to have my old Win XP OS on a boot disk... which I don't have because my old computer was an OEM.... You can see the conundrum...
The old XP motherboard is totally dead... but I still have the legal product key label, pasted on the box...
So, how can I get a bootable disc version of the XP version I legally owned previously, so that I can use it to install VPC 2007 on my Vista computer? (Or am I just screwed??)
--Pamela