I've been lumbered with an old laptop with about 1gb of RAM and a Celeron CPU with XP installed. XP refuses to update and after a few hours of trying to repair XP without a CD and repair Windows Update, I have simply given up before I chuck the thing. 
I was reading up on how to install Windows from a harddrive, and it seems you run into a brick wall if you have a x64 system and are trying to copy x32 files and bootsect. Obviously I'm not willing to install x32 on my system just to prepare the drive.
Can anything be done with VirtualBox? What else can I try, just to get Windows reinstalled? I know XP is soon to be outdated, but I don't think Windows 7 would run too well.

I was reading up on how to install Windows from a harddrive, and it seems you run into a brick wall if you have a x64 system and are trying to copy x32 files and bootsect. Obviously I'm not willing to install x32 on my system just to prepare the drive.
Can anything be done with VirtualBox? What else can I try, just to get Windows reinstalled? I know XP is soon to be outdated, but I don't think Windows 7 would run too well.