I have a Vista machine and despite the huge amount of ram it requires and the fact that it keeps rearranging the files within all my folders, I like it. One other unfortunate problem I have with it, though is the fact that it really doesn’t seem to like XP Pro much. I dropped my fiance’s laptop the other day and the display is fried and her dvd burner is no longer working. We don’t have enough money to get her a new display or a new laptop so the only option is to place all her data on my pc. We only have a small amount of time to do this as her display is more blacked out every day and we need to do it while I can still see the screen.
I tried to network the two together but as I said… Vista doesn’t seem to like XP Pro much. To prepare for this transfer, I installed VMware on my Vista machine and installed XP on it so we could place all of her stuff there. But with the network between Vista and XP giving me such a problem, I thought I might be able to run the network between the virtual machine and her laptop, thus cutting Vista out of it. I need to know if this is possible and if so, how I would go about doing it.
Thanx!
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If you can have VMWare on Vista that’s good. Add a network card into your virtual hardware (Ethernet) and set it to “Bridged”. Plug your physical ethernet connection before starting up VMWare (this enables the physical card). Make sure your virtual XP recognises that virtual card (IP address etc). When virtual XP is running it should be a matter of networking 2 XPs together. If still in trouble install VM tools on virtual XP (.iso image for your virtual CD ROM in the VMWare folder) – this may help VM XP to work better.
I also agree with the first answer: you can get external laptop disk drives (usb).
a virtual machine can be given an ip which will is configured to TUNNEL through the physical network card. so in theory the VM will exist as a separate entity on your network and you can simply copy files as you would on a normal network connection. i believe the VMware documentation contains instructions on precisely how to do it.
hope this helps
I think you can get a external casing to insert the laptop’s hard drive and connect it through usb to any computer
i read on the net somewhere to get XP to network with vista you have to go throughthe properties tab on the XP network screen ?? and on one of the tabs there is something you have to tick and presto it will see the vista machine
google your problems
as long as the laptop has power you be able to read the HDD
also on a laptop see if it has a vga plug on the rear plug in a monitor
go in display properties > settings> advance and set the monitor as the primary
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