Windows XP Support

[scarface]

Perhaps a mac forum would be more suitable to find an answer. In the meantime, if you want to use xp without screwing your boot, a virtual machine could be an interesting option.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

[Vasudev]

xp wont run using bootcamp is because of GPT partition because xp only sees MBR.
Only hope is w7/w8.x through bootcamp.
As scarface said VM is way to go.

[scarface]

It's raining here, this is a sad and grey day. I'm working, in front of my computer, looking desperately outside the window, perhaps searching a kind of inspiration. The period is calm, there is not a lot of work in the meantime, August being traditionally the off-peak period for the firms.

I finally came on the forum. Yet there is not a lot of people here.
I sought some information on bootcamp and it seems bootcamp 4 is not compatible with xp any more. However Yocto has to know that he can find a version of windows 7 on the forum too.

[humbert]

@Vasudev -> at least on my motherboard it's possible to disable GPT. I did this when I installed Windows 8 and 8.1 to prevent it from creating those strange partitions. Naturally after the installation I restored GPT.

As for moving messages to another topic, I looked into that but I'm not seeing how to do it. Among the options available to me as a moderator, that one isn't on there. One day I'll ask the chief, or maybe Ahmad might know.

[Vasudev]

@Humbert -> GPT is not like UEFI. GPT is more like MBR with addition functionality like CRC,128 partitions etc and it is not like filesystem such as ntfs,fat32,hpfs etc but gpt/mbr lays a foundation for different filesystem.
only way to change between gpt/mbr is format ur whole disk and not applicable to single partitions.

[humbert]

@Humbert -> GPT is not like UEFI. GPT is more like MBR with addition functionality like CRC,128 partitions etc and it is not like filesystem such as ntfs,fat32,hpfs etc but gpt/mbr lays a foundation for different filesystem.
only way to change between gpt/mbr is format ur whole disk and not applicable to single partitions.

UEFI is the BIOS. It happens that boards with UEFI BIOSes also support the newer partitioning system called GPT. As I recall, when I first tried to install Windows 8.1 on my system, it insisted on installing several separate partitions on the drive. To prevent this, I booted into the BIOS and disabled GPT and re-enabled it when everything was said and done. At least that's what I think I did.

[Vasudev]

@Humbert -> GPT is not like UEFI. GPT is more like MBR with addition functionality like CRC,128 partitions etc and it is not like filesystem such as ntfs,fat32,hpfs etc but gpt/mbr lays a foundation for different filesystem.
only way to change between gpt/mbr is format ur whole disk and not applicable to single partitions.

UEFI is the BIOS. It happens that boards with UEFI BIOSes also support the newer partitioning system called GPT. As I recall, when I first tried to install Windows 8.1 on my system, it insisted on installing several separate partitions on the drive. To prevent this, I booted into the BIOS and disabled GPT and re-enabled it when everything was said and done. At least that's what I think I did.

Do you have multiple drives ?

[humbert]

Check this out. After reading this thread I decided to investigate regarding my partitions and I noticed they were all MBR. Having read that GPT was a better mousetrap, I decided to do some googling to see if they could be converted over. Almost everyone recommended AOMEI Partition Assistant, saying this proggie could convert the disks to GPT with no data loss. I did a torrent search and found a working copy. This is the best thing I've seen for managing partitions. It flawlessly converted my drive C (SSD) and drive D (HDD). I'm surprised how much faster it is. Windows boots up in about 5 seconds on my SSD with GPT, and it reads drive D much faster. For some reason it would not convert my removable USB 3.0 drive, saying there wasn't enough space on it despite the the fact there's plenty of space. I have to get ahold of someone to find out why.

One thing - once you convert your drive C, power down the computer before booting up. After my conversion C wouldn't boot, so it occurred to me to shut off the power. That worked. If you're running Windows 7 or higher and your board has a UEFI BIOS, I strongly recommend this.

[Vasudev]

As for check drive performance proper driver & alignment is needed check it out using AS SSD Benchmark it is freeware.

[humbert]

As for check drive performance proper driver & alignment is needed check it out using AS SSD Benchmark it is freeware.

Aoemi has that feature. When I activated it, it said optimization was unnecessary.