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February 16th, 2009 18:00
Trouble Installing XP on Vostro 1500, possible dual boot
My laptop came with Vista Basic, I have a retail XP Pro CD that I'm using for the install.
After XP Cd copies all the drivers to memory and tries to restart or start; I get the Blue Screen.
I tried a slipstream install disk with SP3 and it won't work either, I get the same error. I tried to include the Vostro drivers but I'm not sure how, all the ones I downloaded from Dell are exe files.
I have the hard drive set to IDE in the BIOS.
I have shrunk the C: drive OS partition so that there is a 10GB unallocated space on the drive using Vista Disk Management.
Disk management shows a OS (C:), RECOVER (D:) labeled partitions, an unlabeled 78MB Healthy (EISA COnfiguration), and another unlabeled 2.5 GB Healthy (Primary Partition). I don't know what all of these are for or if I can delete any of them.
The space created from the shinking of C: shows up as 10.18 Unallocated. I was unable to format or label this part, i get an error"You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space becasue the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions."
I'm hoping to get XP installed to a seperate partition and then get it set up for dual boot so I can ensure that XP will work okay before completley ditching Vista. And I may want to keep Vista around for a few dx10 games.
towlett
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February 17th, 2009 13:00
Solved!!! I just ran all the .exe driver files, then canceled the installation that followed, then made the slipstream install disk pointing it to the location they all extracted to, ...dell/drivers/...
I then installed with the CD I made and all went well. Then within XP I restored the Boot Loader using EasyBCD 1.7.2, found out it is absolutely necessary to install Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 before doing so though, beacause without it EasyBCD doesn't run.
Thanks to this forum and instructions found here,
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm?page=4
all is working, both OS' on my Lenovo 1500. :emotion-2: My first Dualboot system. :emotion-11:
Davet50
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February 16th, 2009 18:00
you defiantly have reached the max partition and will have to make a decision. The recover D partition stores your Factory restore image in the event you need to restore you system to as shipped condition. The decision you have to make is to keep this or delete it. Frankly you may in fact already have made this as you did repartition the drive which alters the master boot record and once this is done the factory restore function usually doesn't work. The EISA partition you cannot get rid of easily as with the 2.5 gig
now for your install issue you need to slipstream the SATA driver into the install disk. You need to download THIS FILE
<ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>
and then you need to run the file to extract the files as it is a compressed file.
towlett
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February 16th, 2009 18:00
Even with the HD set to IDE in the BIOS, so SATA is not enabled?
"now for your install issue you need to slipstream the SATA driver into the install disk. You need to download THIS FILE
<ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>
and then you need to run the file to extract the files as it is a compressed file."
And how do I include the driver in the install disk? It is an exe file... maybe I need a tutorial on using nLite, but I couldn't figure it out, when browsing for the drivers to include they don't show up, I'm guessing becasue they aren't the correct file type. Running them will only extract them, not try to install them???
If I did blow the restore it's not the end of the world, I think, I made an image of the c drive using DriveImage XML before attempting any of this... I could restore from that I think.
Davet50
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February 17th, 2009 05:00
Yes the .exe is a compress file like a zip it is just self extracting. you can run it on another computer and it will extract the files and then you will have them to copy. Normally one would then copy those files to a floppy disk and insert the disk durning the install. But since you do not have a floppy you will need to slipsteam them. You can try using a thumb drive but not much success has been reported unsing one as normally the os looks to the floppy drive for the files.
If you slipstreamed SP3 the procedure is the same. There are no SATA driver files contained in the XP disk. M$ did not include them when it wrote the OS.
Yes if you made a image you will proably be ok. Losing the restore is not a big deal. All it really does is lesson the time it takes to reload windows. As long as you have a restore disk you can reload from that.