Metropol

Many of you have lauded the virtues of XP over the years and I certainly never argued against you. I'm rapidly approaching my first anniversary of using Vista on my main home PC, and I can't moan - it does what it says on the tin, and that's all us cavemen want most of the time.

I know there are issues with Vista, not least of which the fact that many of my peripherals, such as mobile and scanner, won't work with it. I tried all the 'run this with XP compatability mode' and it didn't do anything. I still have stuff I want to run with XP though, so I have always looked to resolve this issue.

Today I thought I'd have another attempt. I've cleared my 2nd HDD and formatted it as NTFS (it was previously abit FAT), as it was the offspring of various cannibalised PCs.

I was wondering if I could get a free download of an XP operating system from anywhere. My 2nd HDD is now 'empty'.

It's not like I haven't paid for it before, is it? The PC I bought in 2005 had XP built in, but I don't want to put those disks into the drive on this one as it will assume it's re-writing the master drive, not the slave.

Much help appreciated, and mincing pies sent to all respondants, of course!

Um, are you in the wrong place sir?

It worked!

Isonstine wrote:Moved to The Lounge.

Ta!
But I thought that really was the correct place. First time I'd been there!

I would still like an answer to my query though!

Why on earth would you think that a forum about broadcast technology is the correct place for a home computer question?

Sput wrote:Why on earth would you think that a forum about broadcast technology is the correct place for a home computer question?

I thought it was a techy forum. I hadn't seen beyond the 'headlines' on here before today! I'll stay away from it in future.

My apologies, but I hope someone can answer the question I posed.

Simple answer: fuck no yet maybe.

Long answer: Probably can't get a fresh XP install disc but you'll have to do a lot of finagling just to get it to dual boot anyway so unless you get a dodgy arr version your best bet would be to put your blank drive in on it's own as primary, reimage from the disc and figure out how to dual boot from there.

Thanks for calling.

just download a corporate iso from a torrent (download utorrent... it has an inbuilt search using all the popular torrent search sites)... you can then burn the image to cd and boot it like you would a genuine disk - there are several keygens for xp - just remember to download the 'corporate' iso.

I just want to know who this Original Poster called 'XP' is.

Isn't it a tad ironic that when XP was still the latest version, everybody whinged about how 2000 was better, but now that Vista is the latest version, XP is like precious gold?

For the record, 2000 was better.