The_Decimator Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 Hi. Is this possible? I boot the iso with XBoot, and it works fine until setup tries to find any disks, and it fails. Thanks, The_Decimator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted June 14, 2019 Supervisor Share Posted June 14, 2019 Hello, I think your best bet would be to run it as a virtual machine, with the host operating system being whatever was installed by default on the ThinkPad T550. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decimator Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 2 minutes ago, goretsky said: Hello, I think your best bet would be to run it as a virtual machine, with the host operating system being whatever was installed by default on the ThinkPad T550. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Is there no way to run it natively? (BTW not that it really matters but I think the computer came with Windows 8.1 but it's been long overwritten.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Som Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 5 minutes ago, The_Decimator said: Is there no way to run it natively? (BTW not that it really matters but I think the computer came with Windows 8.1 but it's been long overwritten.) if there is an option in the bios to change the hard drive controller to ide from ahci, it should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted June 14, 2019 Global Moderator Share Posted June 14, 2019 What are the specs on this notebook (processor, etc). Are we sure Vista can even be installed on it? AHCI isn't the problem since Vista supported it out of the box. Also, wouldn't running Vista in a dual boot environment open the main OS (say WIndows 10) to security risks since Vista no longer receives security updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decimator Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 55 minutes ago, Som said: if there is an option in the bios to change the hard drive controller to ide from ahci, it should work The problem is my BIOS doesn't have one. 28 minutes ago, Jim K said: What are the specs on this notebook (processor, etc). Are we sure Vista can even be installed on it? AHCI isn't the problem since Vista supported it out of the box. Also, wouldn't running Vista in a dual boot environment open the main OS (say WIndows 10) to security risks since Vista no longer receives security updates. Vista RTM did, but not Vista Beta 1, which is what I'm trying to install. Also, the main OS is Debian. Also, technically if I was going with Vista RTM instead, there are workarounds to install security updates for Server 2008 on it through next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted June 15, 2019 Supervisor Share Posted June 15, 2019 Hello, This would have been a build somewhere between the beta and release candidate builds of Microsoft Windows Vista, which was released in 2006 with version number of 6.0.6000. So, I would think your best bet for running it natively is to source some hardware from the 2005-2006 timeframe, like a ThinkPad T43p or T61p, and use that, instead. The ThinkPad T500 was released in 2015, which means a good amount of its architecture is unlikely to be recognized by that build of Windows Vista. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky 18 hours ago, The_Decimator said: Is there no way to run it natively? (BTW not that it really matters but I think the computer came with Windows 8.1 but it's been long overwritten.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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