Can I install Windows onto a PXI controller originally configured with Pharlap?

[TurboPhil]

We recently upgraded several PXI systems, replacing PXI-8196 controllers with PXI-8106 controllers. The old PXI-8196 controllers were running RTOS, but we would like to install Windows XP on them for use as ancillary DAQ systems.

Is there any reason why this would not be possible? Are there any hardware/BIOS differences between stricly-RT PXI systems and Windows/Dual-Boot PXI systems? I imagine we'd be replacing the hard drives (the stock 20GB's probably wouldn't cut it for a windows machine), so we could make sure that they're formatted as NTFS instead of FAT32. But once we have the new drives, we should be able to install Windows XP without any problems, right?

[Scott-M]

Hi Phil,

The only catch is that our RT controllers do not come with a license for Windows, you would need to get your own, other than that, the hardware is perfectly capable of running windows. Keep in mind that dual boot is also an option:

Dual-Booting Windows XP and LabVIEW RT on a PXI Controller

Thanks

Scott M.