INSTALLING NETBEUI ON XP INSTALL

The second, should I just wipe the hard drive of Windows 7 and do a fresh install of XP on a newer Dell Latitude E5430?ДЄny help with a work around short of spending money on upgrading the CNC would be helpful. The first question is, will running XP mode on a Windows 7 virtual PC even work in this situation? My other computers can see my Windows 7 drive but not the XP drive. IвЂ™ve set up the workgroup to network with my other machines and my router but I still canвЂ™t see them. IвЂ™ve set up a Virtual PC in Windows 7 and installed Windows XP mode to run on the virtual PC, IвЂ™ve also copy the NetBEUI Protocol from an old XP disk and installed it into the local area network connection. I'm sure I am not the only person still making a living using a perfectly functional piece of older equipment and I'm hoping there is someone out there that can advise me on setting up a relatively new Dell laptop running Windows 7 so that it can run Windows XP and communicate with my networked computers and my router. The other day the display on my XP laptop died, leaving me scrambling to set up an external monitor, however it's only a matter of time before the XP laptop dies altogether, so I'm in the process of setting up a backup XP laptop, but I'm having some trouble that I hope the community can help me out with.Д«efore I get into the details I just want to acknowledge that yes, the machine is a dinosaur and no, it is not economically feasible to buy a new router or update the controller. The problem isn't so much keeping the router up and running, it's still going strong, the problem is maintaining a reliable source of communications with it, which means maintaining a functioning Windows XP box up and running.

I have a 20 year old CNC Router that still requires a Windows XP box running NetBEUI protocol to communicate.

Installing netbeui on xp