Hello all,
I have a Gateway computer running Windows 7 Home Edition. I have another older computer running Windows XP, and I can hot swap the drive with the W7 computer with no issue so that I can access and recover files from the old system hard drive. I can also easily pull this drive out of the hot swap bay and place it back in the older computer, fire it up and play video games, surf the net as if nothing was an issue.
What I would like to do is be able to plug that drive back into my W7 machine and boot up the XP operation system when I want to work in that environment (there are some games that just perform better there, and I have used the compatibility wizard with only moderate success).
My issue is this: when starting my newer computer with the XP drive in the hot swap bay, I can enter BIOS on startup and designate the computer to boot from that drive. The Windows XP logo flashes on the screen briefly (as it appears when loading the op system on the old computer), but then disappears and the computer boots W7.
I have tried booting from the XP drive several times, but in each instance it just flashes the logo as described above then continues on into W7. Once in W7, the XP drive shows in My Computer and I can access the files and all that, however that is not what I was really wanting to do.
Thanks –
Tim
I have a Gateway computer running Windows 7 Home Edition. I have another older computer running Windows XP, and I can hot swap the drive with the W7 computer with no issue so that I can access and recover files from the old system hard drive. I can also easily pull this drive out of the hot swap bay and place it back in the older computer, fire it up and play video games, surf the net as if nothing was an issue.
What I would like to do is be able to plug that drive back into my W7 machine and boot up the XP operation system when I want to work in that environment (there are some games that just perform better there, and I have used the compatibility wizard with only moderate success).
My issue is this: when starting my newer computer with the XP drive in the hot swap bay, I can enter BIOS on startup and designate the computer to boot from that drive. The Windows XP logo flashes on the screen briefly (as it appears when loading the op system on the old computer), but then disappears and the computer boots W7.
I have tried booting from the XP drive several times, but in each instance it just flashes the logo as described above then continues on into W7. Once in W7, the XP drive shows in My Computer and I can access the files and all that, however that is not what I was really wanting to do.
Thanks –
Tim
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