Vista - P2V XP before Vista?

Hello,

I want to install VISTA. I'm currently running XP and have YEARS of tuning
invested in it. Is there a way to P2V my XP machine.... wipe it clean,
install Vista (Ultimate), and then run my XP in a VM under Virtual PC?? I
would love to be able to do that in order to migrate all of my settings,
software, apps, etc, etc...

That would allow me to continue to use my XP machine until I get things
reinstalled under VISTA and become more familiar with it.

Anyone ever do that before?


Thanks,
Troy

I did it recently for a friend who was moving to Vista. We simply did a
full backup before reformatting the hard disk. She only wanted to save her
data, not a running XP system.

You should be able to do what yo wnt with Acronis True Image and
Universal Restore. (ie backup XP, reformat and install Vista, install VPC,
create a vm and restore the XP installation into it). Note that not
everything will work under VPC as it did on the host. You can't access USB
devices on the host, the CD/DVD is read only and the video card is pretty
basic. Any programs which rely on specific hardware in the host will fail.

Windows Easy Transfer in Vista does a pretty good job but you have to run
the first bit before you trash your XP install, so you really need two
physical machines.

"Troy Bruder" <troy_bruder@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've run Windows Easy Transfer to a USB hard disk - it worked well, and I
was able to restore my settings after. It's not perfect, but I figure it
saved me at least a full day of tweaking.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel


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