Cannot install Windows XP on partition - NO PARTITION FOUND

Question

Hello people... Imma break it down for u.... I have -Dell XPS 730x with 6 GIG DDR3 RAM, Intel i7 64 bit Processor, 500 GIG disk, I am running -Windows Vista Home Premium 64 which was preinstalled on the cpu I want to -Dual boot between Vista64 and Windows XP32 So far- I have done everything to this machine from creating a virtual window in Vista64, to going into the command prompt from vista boot disk and running diskpart to clear hard drive. I currently have -Two partitions on one disk. Primary 200GIG and Healthy 265GIG -Windows Vista Home Premium64 installed and running The problems im having -every time  try to boot from CD and run the windows xp setup, it is UNABLE to find ANY HARD DRIVES! I have researched that - I must have the disk partitioned - Windows XP must be installed first - I have to play with the boot.ini - If i install vista32 it will be more successful The errors I have gotten -STOP: 0x0000008E - i researched this and it said one option is to take out the excess RAM I will be happy if - By the end of this weekend I can successfully run XP or both OS's in dual boot. I need to go through all this trouble because - Digidesign has not written software for 64 bit proccessing yet. I need to make music. Please help me.... Thank you....

dave51_2fe887 · Answer

Big Jus wrote,

-every time try to boot from CD and run the windows xp setup, it is UNABLE to find ANY HARD DRIVES!

Because XP does not have SATA drivers "Intel Matrix Storage drivers". They MUST be install in the beginning of xp install at the F6 setup screen.

Go to the Intel site and download "Intel Matrix Storage driver" for your chipset. Put them on a floppy if you have a floppy drive, if not you will have to Slipstream the drivers into your XP install disc.

nLite to slipstream drivers.

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

How to install XP on a Vista machine.

http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/about88231.html

Windows General

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