I'm new at this!!!!

[Guest]

My husband has a program called Mixcraft by Accoustica. It is a
mini-recording studio type thing. It will not run on Vista. We've gone thru
all of the support with Accoustica and they don't know what the problem is.
My question is this: can we get an external hard drive and install XP on it
and use the Vista on the regular Gateway PC? If it was possible, then we
could install his Mixcraft on the external drive with the XP and he would
still have the vista on the regular hard drive.

 

[Guest]

Yes you can, but getting XP to work on an external drive is pretty difficult
to do.

Other options would be to install XP to another hard drive inside the case
and dual boot between Vista and XP there.

Another way would be to use a virtual machine to run XP within Vista.

Finally, I'd suspect that there was something that could be done with the
Mixcraft program to make it work within Vista (the website says it's Vista
compatible).

Good luck!

- John

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

XP won't run from an external drive. However, if you download and install
Virtual PC, you can install XP into it and then run his program under XP
from within Vista. Virtual PC is free to download and use from Microsoft
here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

It states that it needs Ultimate or Business, but it will install and run in
Vista Home versions as well.

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