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right, decision made, ill VM it, and check it like that, anyone recommend a good VM program? not VM workstation it causes all sorts of issues on my rig
thanks for all your help guys, id Rep you if we werent in Chillout room
Sun's VirtualBox
If it is "buggy", you would have it in a "sand box"!
BTW here is one of my XP drive maps, using just less than 10GB:
Cheers!
BFK yeah its ok i know the key is genuine (its actually the original key that came with the PC) its just the disk came in a plain white disk sleeve (the seller told me that they had damaged the case) i just want to check its not malware ridden
ill give VB a try, cheers again everyone
Give Microsoft Virtual PC a try, I've used it and never had any problems. I haven't tried it in windows 7 though. If it's XP sp3 you don't have to enter a product code, you can try it for 30 days without having to activate it.
In case you need some instruction, a while ago I wrote a little tutorial on how to deal with Virtual Box (which I recommend) and Virtual PC. You can download the PDF from here. It was written for Windows7 as a guest (the Beta at the time). But it works just as well for XP.
I recommend you allocate between 500MB to 1GB of RAM and 15 to 20GB of dynamic disk space( it will only use what it needs).