2006 HP inspiron running Win XP Can I put a solid state drive in it?

[mdklassen]

>  all I would have to solve is the "how to" to get my network access with the Virtual drive.

I know very little about Virtual Machines, except in the IBM "mainframe" environment.

But, I can imagine that the "host" system might take a "real" CD/DVD drive, and make it available to the "guest".

So, if the "host" maps a drive-letter (over the network) to your shared folder, can that drive-letter be made available to the "guest" as a "virtual-disk-drive" ?

P.S. A Google-search for "vmware map virtual disk to drive" seems to give some relevant results.

[mdklassen]

Which version of AUTOCAD do you have?

From: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System...

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Issue:

This article provides the system requirements for AutoCAD 2010.

System Requirements For 32 bit

• Operating system: Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional, Home Premium;Windows Vista (SP1); Windows XP (SP2 or later)

[GENEXPLOVER]

Thanks for the reference to VM instructions. That makes it easier to find for sure. I did have a VM running XP on my Win 10 machine before the update to win 10 from win 8.1. I have not looked into running a VM on win 10 so I will probably go to microsoft to read sone instructions on that OS. What I want to do is have the VM runniong XP and then get full access to the old network server so I can Read/Write on the network system and even surf the web if needs be. I hope to get instructions from either Microsoft or the  "vmware map virtual disk to drive" search to get that working. If I can get it working that might be a solution. Then I believe I will back the whole thing up to a ISO in one of my External hard drives so I can get it back if it fails due to sitting for a couple of months between activations.

In a second post you asked me which AutoCad version I have. I am running Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 and Land Desktop 2007 which I checked our with my vender for compatibility on Win 7 machines. They told me it is quetionable whether it would work and then when Win 8.0 came out they said absolutely not. I never tried to load it on a Win 7 machine because I never got the Pro version of the OS. If I understand correctly the Win 7 Pro is the only one that will run software in XP compatible mode. Anyway I figure I can get it all figured out. Thanks.

[mdklassen · Accepted solution]

> XP compatible mode

From: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002

Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 makes it easy to install and run many of your productivity programs that run on Windows XP directly from a computer that runs Windows 7.  Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 makes it easy run many of your productivity programs that run on Windows XP on Windows 7. It uses virtualization technology such as  Windows Virtual PC to provide a Virtual Windows XP environment for Windows 7.

• Windows XP Mode provides a 32-bit virtual Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (SP3) environment.
  This download includes a virtual hard disk (.vhd file) with Windows XP SP3 preinstalled.
  Client virtualization software, such as  

  Windows Virtual PC

   is required to use Windows XP Mode.

  
  

   

  System Requirements
• Supported Operating System

  Windows 7

  Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Enterprise.