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installing XP onto VISTA machine
Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C with four partitions on
it. C: is the one with VISTA D: recovery E and F - logical partitions for data storage. Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions. However when the installation process come to the screen to select a partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C with four partitions on it. C: is the one with VISTA D: recovery E and F - logical partitions for data storage. Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions. However when the installation process come to the screen to select a partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it The partition to you want install XP MUST be a primary partition, not a logical one. Bernd |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
"Bernd" wrote in message ... The partition to you want install XP MUST be a primary partition, not a logical one. I appreciate that, but the XP set up disk usually allows even to create a partition. At leats it should see the existing primary partition VISTA is on, but it sees nothing. |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
On 05/02/2010 11:49 AM, Bernd wrote:
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C with four partitions on it. C: is the one with VISTA D: recovery E and F - logical partitions for data storage. Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions. However when the installation process come to the screen to select a partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it The partition to you want install XP MUST be a primary partition, not a logical one. Bernd Not true XP can be installed on any partition but the boot files must always be on the active primary... In this case it would more than likely destroy the Win7 boot loader however |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
If you want to avoid problems down the line, I suggest backup
everything you have got on C and D drive (i.e. Vista and recovery drives) using Acronis or Norton Ghost 15. Then reformat everything using Windows XP CD and recreate the partition using the same CD. Then install XP first then Install Vista on D drive. This way you have got dual boot on your system and at boot time you will have 30 seconds by default to choose which Os you want to boot into. The purpose of the backups is to have something to go back to just in case it doesn't work first time round. Multiple boot is always Windows 2000, then XP, then Vista then Windows 7. We have got a system on which we have Dos 6.22/Windows 3.10, Windows 95, Windows98/SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 though no body uses it but we need it just in case we want to test something out. Incidentally ignore Twayne because he is a known troll on these newsgroups and he knows nothing but how to abuse people. hth aa wrote: Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C with four partitions on it. C: is the one with VISTA D: recovery E and F - logical partitions for data storage. Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions. However when the installation process come to the screen to select a partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it -- THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. LD5SZRA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright LD5SZRA 2010. |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
whs;1260635 Wrote: Do you have the XP driver for that disk. OP has two posts. http://www.vistax64.com/vista-genera...a-machine.html -- theog |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- XP can be installed on any partition but the boot files must always be on the active primary... Using the standard setup ? Bernd |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
On 05/02/2010 05:48 PM, Bernd wrote:
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- XP can be installed on any partition but the boot files must always be on the active primary... Using the standard setup ? Bernd Yes... XP can be installed on any partition (not on an external USB drive) but no matter where it's installed...the boot files...by default will end up on the active primary. That's true of all versions of Windows from win95 and up Installing XP after Vista is a recipe for disaster though a third party boot manager should be able to handle it or a Vista repair might do the trick |
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installing XP onto VISTA machine
On May 3, 1:10*am, philo wrote:
On 05/02/2010 05:48 PM, Bernd wrote: -------- Original-Nachricht -------- XP can be installed on any partition but the boot files must always be on the active primary... Using the standard setup ? Bernd Yes... XP can be installed on any partition (not on an external USB drive) but no matter where it's installed...the boot files...by default will end up on the active primary. That's true of all versions of Windows from win95 and up Installing XP after Vista is a recipe for disaster though a third party boot manager should be able to handle it or a Vista repair might do the trick Usually, XP will install if there is any "unallocated" hard drive space. It appears that the hard drive might not have any available left. (Note: there will always small left over that will not get used.) |