Will a virtual desktop (xp mode) in win7 affect a real windows xp in a separate sata drive?

Question

Because the real xp drive reboots every 5minutes after startup and my dad blames the virtual desktop for affecting the real xp.

Answer 1

There isn't a connection between your virtual desktop and the second Sata drive per se. If one drive accesses another drive which is infected then it is more than possible for a virus/trojan/worm etc to migrate from one drive to the other. I have the EXACT same setup. Well I have 3 sata drives. One has xp, one has 7 + Win XP mode and the 3rd is for storage. The issue here is how you arrived at this point. Some people do not remember the old school IDE drive's master/slave/cable select.

Today's drives take care of that. When someone tries to load up more than 1 main operating system on one computer they need to know what they are doing. Some people have enough trouble partitioning one drive to be able to have a dual boot drive. When there is more than one drive and OS is loaded on one the the rest of the drives automatically default to "slave" drives. If there is more than 1 OS needed most people will partition a single drive. When you move over to having multiple system drives you need to know what you are doing. If you know about XP then you may have heard of BOOT.INI. This decides what each drive can and needs to do. Well 7 no longer has the boot.ini it has a boot loader manager. So it gets a bit more interesting. Setting up your drives incorrectly can configure 1 drive to be the system drive resulting in the second "system" drive to now become a secondary drive that does not have a ntldr, boot loader,winload.exe, boot.ini, windows boot manager which would not cause a bsod but instead a failure for that particular drive's OS to load. It would still work but not in the way it was intended to if it was set up incorrectly.

Knowing what the BSOD says could tell you EXACTLY what and where the problem is. Telling us might help us deduce where your problem is originating from. A downloading habit??

Answer 2

well considering they are separate units

there should be no conflict

you must have a problem with the real xp system



run anti-virus and malware apps on the real xp

give us any error messages

and we will help further

Answer 3

spectacular click on your workstation and choose settings. right here there could desire to be a tab that permits you to alter the workstation historic past. I dont bear in mind precisely as i havent used XP in a on a similar time as yet i'm specific you will detect it there.