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Hi, Can someone please help. Last year i installed W8 preview onto a Vista 32 bit machine.This i was able to do simply just by downloading it and is still working fine.
Last night i thought i would try the same on an old XP machine as w8 will be released very soon, however i found out it is not that simple on xp.
I went to the Microsoft download center expecting to find a xp download,however this was not the case.
I found detailed instructions referring to making an iso image.
The instructions went on to say download a USB/DVD download tool if using XP. also an Microsoft Image Mastering api v2 and also Microsoft.Net Framework 2.0
When i tried this i came across the Genuine validation tool, when i attempted to validate i kept getting a message saying the validation tool was out of date and to get the latest version. i have looked every where for an up to date version, but with no luck.
I did via Google find out that i had to use IE and not Chrome for the tool to work is this correct?
Anyway i tried again this time using IE still no luck.
Is there not a simple way like when i downloaded W8 preview onto the Vista machine?
Regards and thanks in advance Dominic.
Last night i thought i would try the same on an old XP machine as w8 will be released very soon, however i found out it is not that simple on xp.
I went to the Microsoft download center expecting to find a xp download,however this was not the case.
I found detailed instructions referring to making an iso image.
The instructions went on to say download a USB/DVD download tool if using XP. also an Microsoft Image Mastering api v2 and also Microsoft.Net Framework 2.0
When i tried this i came across the Genuine validation tool, when i attempted to validate i kept getting a message saying the validation tool was out of date and to get the latest version. i have looked every where for an up to date version, but with no luck.
I did via Google find out that i had to use IE and not Chrome for the tool to work is this correct?
Anyway i tried again this time using IE still no luck.
Is there not a simple way like when i downloaded W8 preview onto the Vista machine?
Regards and thanks in advance Dominic.
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