On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:03:05 -0500, tnik wrote:

On 12/5/2011 10:28 AM, Karl Townsend wrote:
I've got software that don't run on W7...

So, I'm trying to add multiboot W7 and XP on this box. Its already got
W7 installed. I made another disk partition. But W7 Is protecting me
from installing from within the OS. So, I just made a bootable XP
install CD. Same story. XP install disk runs a while then I get a
message from W7 about a virus and it shuts me down.

I guess my next step is to buy a new hard drive, now this is starting
to cost a few bucks. Will it work to install XP to a black hard drive,
then install W7?

Have I missed a better route?

Karl

Karl,

Have you tried Windows 7 virtual pc? Pretty much run XP inside Win7.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

The software vendor tells me that won't work. This is a CNC control
that bypasses windows calls to go direct to the hardware.

Karl