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    help plz about inspiron 1520

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by mammooou, Dec 12, 2007.

  1. mammooou

    mammooou Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey there
    i have inspiron 1520 with home vista premium 32 bit

    i logged into bios setup and changed the sata operation from ahci to ata mode the i restarted and it gave me BSOD(ble screen of death)
    i tried to repair or restore but it doesnot recognize the hdd even when i changed back to ahci mode
    i also tried to install a fresh copy of vista but it gives me that there is 136 gb un allocated space even i load the ahci driver from intel
    any solution plz :(
     
    mammooou, Dec 12, 2007
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    when you go to install vista, delete all partitions, and it will make one big one. then install vista on the big one.
     
    nizzy1115, Dec 12, 2007
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    When installing vista, go to de advanced tab and choose format / advanced (something like that)

    Delete all partitions, and choose INSTALL.
     
    orion23, Dec 12, 2007
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    didnot work also
    it gives me error code but i didnot remove all the partitions
    there's a partition for the recovery(10 gb) and other for dell media direct (2.5 gb)
    also i tried programs and it gave error (wrong parition table)
     
    mammooou, Dec 13, 2007
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    i fixed it using hiren's boot cd
    but now i installed vista home premium on drive c and that sata mode set into ahci
    then i changed it into ata and installed windows server 2003 into drive d
    how could i use the 2 os
    i downloaded a program called vistabootpro but dont know how to use
    before when i changed the sata mode from ahci to ata vista corrupted so how could i use the 2 os :)
    thx in advance
     
    mammooou, Dec 13, 2007
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    mammooou Notebook Enthusiast

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    now i fixed everything using bcdedit command
    but the problem is i changed the names of the os
    the vista becomes windows server 2003 enterprise edition
    and the windows server 2003 is server 2003
    np about the windows server i just want the vista name as before in the boot options
     
    mammooou, Dec 13, 2007
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