Windows 10: install 32 windows 10 on previously installed 64 bit version

Well, I can see in the first photo that you can either select ISO or physical CD/DVD drive. If you already have the DVD-ROM, select the physical drive and put the disk in. In the second photo (network) select LAN to use your wired connection or WLAN to use your WiFi. Upon loading the disk in the drive or the ISO and you boot the virtual machine, it will behave like a typical PC and examine the hard disk. Since no OS is there yet it will boot from DVD. The rest is like installing to a normal PC. If there are files from a failed attempt to install Windows, you will see the familiar message Press any key to boot from DVD. Do that before the time expires and you will start Windows Setup. After Setup is complete, have a look at the menus of Hyper-V. There should be an option to install tools or additions. This will essentially put a special ISO in the virtual drive with all the drivers and other tools. Proceed with the installation.

If you have further problems, post again.

Sorry but I currently have VMWare installed which I won't be able to use if I enable Hyper-V from the features. I will have to disable it again in order to use VMWare. However, if you have any issues I could do it for you. The better is to describe your problem or provide screenshots in case we can help without activating Hyper-V.

 

I no operating system can be found with your ISO, then it isn't bootable. Try a real Windows DVD if you have.

 

those images are from the tutorial not my screenshots, need to find a way of capturing screens other than the prnscr button...
should I delete ( How ? ) all that I have done and carefully go through the procedure again....the reason I mentioned the first screenshot ( new virtual machine wizard) is that there was NO option to install from a cd/DVD drive thus I had to crate an ISO from my XP disk for the virtualisation procedure

 

Have a look at this guide by How-to-Geek

 

thanks will try from this tomorrow, presumably it's easy to remove all that I have done, but not sure how...
thanks
PSwill the how to geek procedure also work AS IS for XP as well ?

 

Yes, the Procedure is the same for all OS. What changes is the amount or RAM, the size of virtual hard disk and some other minor parameters. XP can work with at least 512MB RAM but it will be rather slow, while Vista and later need at least 1GB, 2GB is better. In VMWare to delete a virtual machine, you first delete it from the machines list (the one in the main window where you chose which one to load). Then you find the folder containing the virtual machine data (usually in My Documents, Virtual Machines) and delete it from there as well to free your hard disk space. The process must be similar for Hyper-V.

 

The option to use a physical DVD in Hyper-V is always there, except if you have selected a Generation 2 vm (UEFI / Secure Boot) earlier:




Generation 2 vm can only be installed from the ISO image, the option to install from a DVD is not present:




But: If you are as you say installing a Windows XP guest, you cannot install it on Generation 2 vm as is very clearly explained in the tutorial. A Generation 2 vm must have a 64 bit OS, desktop OS Windows 8 or later or server OS Windows Server 2012 or later, as is quite clearly explained in the Ten Forums Hyper-V tutorial (see the step 4.4 in tutorial).

User error, nothing else.

 

Yes, as you will be installing a "legacy" Windows system like Windows XP, you must select the simplest machine type. That's the good with other virtual machine software such as Virtualbox. Once you select the operating system the machine type is configured automatically, whereas in Hyper-V, as I understand, you have to select it yourself (supposedly an expert user or IT professional).

 

thank you so much.....it's a lot clearer now, really should have read it all through before starting....used the old adage " if all else fails read the instructions " LOL so my fault entirely as has been pointed out by another forum member.....will try again using option 2 etc....one last question, once I have completed this and have XP as a virtual OS....how do I switch between the HOST OS and the virtual OS ?.....again I am sure it's easy and most likely written down and Imhave missed it....

as as a matter of interest your sys spec says W8.1 are you holding back on the W10 upgrade for some reason, just curious.....I was worried at first, but the laptop went smoothly ( turned off all data mining I could and driver updates via God mode ) so upgraded my PC also...

 

You didn't realize that a virtual machine is just an application like Word running in a window or full-screen at your computer. To switch from XP to 10 you make that window active or minimize it. There is no dual-boot involved like when installing XP in your real machine alongside Windows 10! That's the benefit of a virtual machine. You can run it in parallel to your host operating system! You can copy-paste between the two once you install the relevant tools as explained in the guide I gave you.

 

Nope! Totally invalid statement.

Hyper-V automatically selects, by default the Generation 1 (= all operating systems), the Generation 2 is only available when the user it specifically selects, at which point the user will be told that it needs to be a 64 bit OS, Windows 8 or later.

I don't even know if a UEFI / Secure Boot vm is possible in VirtualBox but if yes, I bet it is exactly as in Hyper-V: you only get it if you specifically select it.

 

You may be right. I tried once to enable Hyper-V in order to use an old virtual machine created with Microsoft Virtual PC. I didn't succeed so I disabled it. I haven't tried to create a new virtual machine in Hyper-V, so I am not familiar with the steps involved and the configuration. I eventually was able to import the old Microsoft Virtual PC machine in VMWare and use it from there (after updating drivers of course).

 

ok everything going well, XP disk starts to install, then I get acpi.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 5882
dont know what to do now or what the problem might be

help please...

UPDATE pressed enter , started again now installing .......what was that about, maybe a dirty Cd LOL

 

Yes a dirty CD or a fault CD drive can cause problems during installing Windows XP... When you finish install the tools and drivers, then you can install and test your application. I had a similar problem too. I downloaded Samsung New PC Studio application form my mobile phone and would not work in Windows 64-bit. I now use it in a virtual machine. Good job that VMWare can share my Bluetooth with the guest OS.

 

XP installing now..
fingers crossed