win7

[luqmanummer]

Hi everyone
I purchased a new sony vaio SR55 laptop yesteray. It came with Win7 pre-installed, but without win7 cd.
I need to make a recovery disk after initial setup.

My questions are:
1. Is dvd a good medium for creating the recovery disk?
2. Since I am a diehard XP loyalist, what is the procedure for making a partition for running XP, in addition to win7? I dont have win7 disk.

Thx in advance for all your help. I will not forget to thank you afterwards also. (I read your instructions thro and thro )

Rgds
Luqman

[Dave@Bytes]

DVD is good media for the recovery disk.

You might want to consider running XP in a virtual environment. Look into Virtual Box. It works great.

[so0ky]

That's a good idea, and that is why Windows 7 comes with "Windows XP Emulation Mode" built in the sucker. At least I know for sure for the ultimate version.

Windows XP Emulation Mode is basically a fancy way of saying there is a windows XP virtual machine embedded in the operating system.

You could go Dave'e route too. Just saying things would be easier if you use the embedded one.

[Dave@Bytes]

I'm pretty sure it's Professional version on up. He probably has Home Premium.

[Money2themax]

nope and you need hardware level visualization built into the MOBO

this is what wikipedia said

• Windows Virtual PC is available free of charge for all editions of Windows 7 except Starter, either pre-installed by OEMs or via download from the Microsoft website.
• Windows XP Mode, which enables guest applications to be integrated into the host Windows 7 desktop, is available free of charge to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions, either pre-installed by OEMs or via download from the Microsoft website

[luqmanummer]

That's right, Dave. It is home prem.
So this option is not on.

Thx, guys.
Luqman