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My sugestion: Install Win 7 64-bit -- that's what you're going to want for Windows in a few years. Then download the Virtual PC and the Win XP emulator. Run XyWrite under WinXP . Or install VPC 2007 and run XyWrite on the Win98 emulator. Better yet, install Virtual Box or VMWare and run XyWrite in emulated DOS. The clean install of Win 7 worked like a charm on my system -- granted I have 8 GB of RAM memory and about 1150 GB of disk space. Somewhat to my surprise,. the installation did not insist on formatting the paritition I chose; it actually backed up my Vista installation so I could gracefully change my mind. Took about 20 minutes and needed minimal intervention by me. You do want to give Win 7 (or Win Vista) the first partition on your hard drive, alas, and things go more smoothly if that is the master hard drive on your system, assuming you have 2 or more drives. But the BOOTREC utility will save you if problems arise (I have 4 drives, and Windows is on one of the slaves, so I had a few problems until I googled the error message). Leave the users partition on the system partition to avoid possible grief later. You can always back up it up if you're worried about losing it. The "libraries" I'm so far ignoring; they chew up 50 MBytes on my system partition and I don't expect to ever use them, but that's me, I don't like general purpose storage directories. Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. |