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[mariogatt]

I have just bought an Aspire V3 772G with Windows 8.1 as an operating system.  (a) Is it possible to partition my 500 GB HDD into a "C" and a "D" drive?  Is it then possible to run "D" with an XP operating system?  Thanks for any help you can provide.

Mario Gatt (Malta)

[billsey]

If you would like to run XP on occasion, I'd suggesting running it in a virtual machine instead of booting directly into it. XP will not have the drivers needed for the motherboard, but will work fine in a VM.

[mariogatt]

Lots of thanks for your suggestions.  Of course, I will have to ask for help to do all that.  The reason why I need XP is that I badly need a program I have been using for ages, and it works only up to the XP operating system. Do you suppose that once I install the programme on XP in a virtual machine, it would be stable and work as well as if it was the operating system?

Thanks for your help.

[billsey]

It would be dependent on what he reason is that it will not work on an os newer than XP. Are you sure it will not work on a newer os? Have you tried it using compatability mode in Windows 8.1?

[mariogatt]

The software is Adobe Premiere 6.5 with a Pinnacle Capturing card.  As soon as XP started upgrading, the program became unstable.  The only way I could get it going once again was to organise a dual operating system with a partition, in fact on two seperate hard drives.  My motherboard on my desk top died and I could not replace it.  I opted for a lap top as I already described, but no drivers are available for XP.  I have been on the internet since yesterday, trying to find a replacement for that video editor.  The problem with me is, that at nearly 70 I would find it difficult to relearn another program.

Thanks for all the help you are giving me.

I'm simply an amateur that edits videos I take while on holidays.

Mario

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[billsey]

Yeah, the biggest problem is the card... From what I saw online it's a PCI card and there's not a PCI slot on the laptop. So even if you got XP working somehow it wouldn't matter since the card itself doesn't have any way to hook up. :-(

[mariogatt]

That is not what troubles me yet.  The Pinnacle DVD 500 card is a capturing card which can be replaced by a grabbing peripheral which would do the capturing. 

[billsey]

Did you try compatibility mode with Adobe Premiere 6.5? I found several forum posts elsewhere that indicated that setting XP sp2 compatibility allowed it to run on Vista and 7, so should allow it also with 8 or 8.1. The issue, if you run into one, should be in drivers for peripherals not in the base application. If you replace the Pinnacle card with something that has current drivers then it should work with Premiere (assuming Premiere itself works).

[mariogatt]

That is the problem.  When Premiere and Pinnacle decided to go seperate ways, Premiere stopped upgrading the drivers for its 6.5, having issued several new editing programs.  I could never get the 6.5 going on any other system after XP Pro, the first operating system introduced.  No compatability modes worked for that program.

At 70 I am finding it difficult to switch to another editing program.  I can handle Premiere 6.5 so easily and get very good professional results, though as I said, I am an amateur that edits my own family and holiday strips I take on my old DVD sony camera.

Mario

[billsey]

Sorry to say I'd be hanging out at thift stores looking for a second machine just to run XP then. You can run XP Mode on your machine, but it's not going to work with your hardware. You should be able to pick up a used XP box with monitor, keyboard and mouse for $100 or less to handle the video editing and use the good machine for everything else. Move data between them with a thumb drive and leave the XP box off the internet...