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yeah looks like something about the bios is missing, i also tried to install the drivers for my laptop on xp and it gave me a bios missing error thanks for the help tali hopefully i can get this running correct! |
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Anyway, what I want to do is go to bed, but I had to let you know as the formus help me so much, so what little I can give back (and believe me it's little) I will! Tali |
heh wow, i had already removed the partition and erased all the data, well im going to be re-installing xp tonight haha i hope it works, thanks! |
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Why these companies don't give you a machine on which you make the desicions about what you want rather than supporting one OS only I will never know. Obviously they only make computers for people who want to browse the net and play games, not for people who have bigger techno-ambitions. My problems seem to be over-ish now, but let me know how you get on and if I can suggest anything, I will! May the force be with us all! Tali |
How do I set the new parition for XP to drive E:? And incase something goes wrong how do I acess my vista parition with all my data? |
Change the driver letter in Vistabootpro in the OS management part. As for access, well whatever OS you're in you can access anything on the PC. When I'm XP I can even get to the Vista program files. |
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Ok I have my main parition on Vista with all my stuff on it. Then I create an allocated space of 20 gb I boot from the xp CD then I put in ME because I have update of XP Home. Then it comes to the partitions and it only shows my vista partition. Why is this? Why doesnt it show my unallocated space? And It says I have 200 gb free on my hard drive. When I get to partition part it only shows I have 125gb free. Maybe it doesnt show the partition becasue of xp upgrade? And in partition 1 it says its like 13500 space and it says 13500 space free. Do i click enter on partition 1? Or will I lose all my stuff? If i click enter wont i get a warning. All help appreciated. |
Success...so far...Question, tale of woe, warning! First post! Great site, great tutorial, thank you much! I picked my screen name because, despite quite a bit of experience (programming real-time at chip level in hex, coding in MATLAB, FORTRAN, LISP, build my own computers, etc) it seems I'm getting stale and every time I try something I end up in a mess! I bought a box for the boss when his crashed during an office move. I was tied up and needed something quick, so just went to the local big box and picked up a machine with Vista Home Premium on it, intending to "downgrade" to XP as this was OK with Micro$oft. Long story short, ended up with Vista Ultimate and an unformated partition for XP so: Thanks #1 for including the fact that this partition must be formatted BEFORE you start the XP setup. Another site left that little detail out, which caused much frustration! Thanks #2 for having the QA right below so I could find that I had to get into the BIOS & disable SATA native mode for XP to see the formatted partition. That solved the "Your computer has been stopped..." BSOD that I was getting. Problem #1 - now install was going, but as install proceeded (and I was typing this) something locked up, so I'm now using XP cd's recovery console to reformat the partition. Note too, that although I'd used Vista's disk manager to format the partition and designate the drive letter as "D:", XP Setup detected it as "H:" (Volume name was the one I'd given it). Question #1: (Background) We'd always, prior to XP, used two physical drives or at least two partitions in our machines, with Windows and the programs on C: and all our docs/data on D: Then with XP we were stuck with the "Documents and Settings" folder for the user hives even if we pointed the "My Documents" folder to the D: drive. I eventually found a way to move the user hives to D: (not for the faint of heart, mind you!), but it's a lot easier to just say where you want it on install. (Q) But how does one run winnt.exe or win32.exe in unattended mode, with an Unattended.txt file having the desired drive:\directory entry, when you're installing from the CD? Off-topic to be sure, but whilst I'm here... Helpful Hint: After I raised holy cain, my manufacturer responded with a complete list of where I could get XP drivers for my machine. I'm with the soul who posted that the computer manufacturer should support you using any operating system you fiddly well please, just because they pre-install an operating system shouldn't lock you into that forever, at the very least among teh Windows flavors. Supposedly, the major manufacturers are supporting XP downgrades, as they bloody well ought to. But you may have to push pretty hard. Best to all, DangerousTom |
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