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We have this one HP Laserjet 1000 printer with few available toners and still able to do normal printing job. We love him most even though we have another new all-in-one printer at home. The only problem is since most of our computers are running Windows 7 (except Abah’s WinXP), the old horse is not compatible to the new Windows, even Vista users find it hard to get along.

I have been searching for the printer’s driver long but sadly there’s none for Windows 7, leaving me with only 2 options: either to make a dual OS PC or install a virtual machine for the WinXP to run alongside the current Win7. The latter option seems safer because any mistake while installing dual OS will cause me to load WinXP as my default OS.

After hours surfing the net for tutorials last night, this is the result:

Hurray! A virtual WinXP running on a tiny 2GB hard disk! Well later on I found out that 2GB is too small for the system T_T so I repeated the whole installation process, this time with 5GB. Takde kerja betul ah.

Everything’s fine now, I can access USB ports like normal, read CDs like normal, surf Internet like normal and the most important part is to print like normal! Yey! So happy the old machine is now forced back to work nyahahaha!

PS: Will make a tutorial about this in the next post Insyallah.