Just as I was getting back into the swing of things

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I hit a snag in my painting and tweaking. A new system....with Win 7 Ultimate. I can not use Aircraft Container Manager under Win 7 and Photoshop 7.0 will not install either. So, I am out of the skinning and tweaking business for a bit. Not long as I will set my system up as a dual boot with Win XP Pro and Win 7 on separate drives. A 250gig for XP and a 500gig for Win 7. My sim files are now luxuriating on a spacious 1TB drive. So, for the mean time....I will just be flying and enjoying my new sim performance. In a month or so, I will set about dual booting my system....need to get some tips and info on how to properly do it first.

So, for now OBIO's Virtual Aircraft Restoration Company is shut down....not permanently, just while the place is spruced up and expanded. Heck, I might just have to spend a little time with AFCAD and Runway12 and create a scenery to do my restoring and testing in. Yeah...sounds like a good idea.

OBIO
 
Tim, if win 7 ultimate has XP mode (as it should) you can put it in there and use it that way. You will have to install fs9 in there also. Win 7 ult may have everything you need alreay but if it does not just google xp mode for win 7 and get the software needed. All it is is a virtual partition (virtual machine) on your drive that you can run programs in that no longer work in win 7.
 
Hi,

OBIO .. it's like you have a lot of HD's .. internal and external..
Why you don't use a caddy system (racks) .. it's a easy way to manage many HD's and use different OS without interference..
Just my two cents.
 
Okay...so I need to set up the XP Virtual machine....will do that and see how it goes with ACM and Photoshop 7. Hopefully that will get things rolling for me.

Claudius, the only caddy system I know anything about is the one on the golf course...you know, paying some schmuck to lug around your clubs and tell you how to line up your putts.

OBIO
 
hschuit said:
OBIO, I have W7 Pro 64bit and XP 32bit. First I tried the virtual machine option but I found it cumbersome. I started again from scratch, this time I made it dual boot and after using it for over a year I am still very happy with that. This Windows 7 forum topic is a must read:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html

cheers, Henk.
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I agree with Henk if you don't mind setting up a dual boot. That is what I use as well now...but virtual machine is easy as well.
Ted
 
NCGent said:
But can you run both OS's at the same time in dual boot as you can in XP Mode?
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No you can't. With dual boot, when you switch on the PC you select XP or W7. But I find XP faster that way than running virtual under W7.
Anyway, virtual or dual boot, what I like is you only need to install FSX and/or FS2004 once and you can run them either from XP or from W7.
 
Yipeeeee! Yahoooooo! Photoshop 7 and ACM are running in XP Virtual Mode! Will take some gettin used to.....having to start XP inside of Win 7, but if that is what I must do to be able to paint and tweak, that's fine.

OBIO
 
Tim, That's what I have to do every time I tweak a model in ACM. Move it into XP mode then back to 7, personally I found it the easiest method. Glad ya got it working.

Chris
 
My new system has a built in SATA docking port on top. Just slide a SATA HD into place, fire up the system, and BANG! No need for a caddie really.

It's odd that FS9 won't run under the Virtual XP....but no biggie....as long as I can switch between Photoshop and ACM to check my paint progress, I'm good.

I installed FS9 under Virtual XP, then basically gutted it to save HD space. Since it won't be running, there is no need for planes, sounds, gauges, scenery....just the Aircraft folder to drop the plane I am working on into and the Effects folder for working with effects.

OBIO
 
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