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    dv5-1002nr windowsxpp install black screen

    Discussion in 'HP' started by exbellicus, Aug 20, 2008.

  1. exbellicus

    exbellicus Newbie

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    I have set aside a partition for my windows xppro installation, and whenever I boot from the disk I get a black screen right after Press any key to boot from cd...

    I am booting off a disk with slipstreamed SATA drivers ( I have tried 3 different versions of XP and several CDS) but I cannot get far enough to load the drivers.

    after several minutes I get the blue screen....(000x.... the hard drive error)
    Is this because I have vista on another partition? If I switch the XP partition to active and try from there will I be able to return to vista if the install doesn't go well?

    thanks in advance.
    Brett
     
    exbellicus, Aug 20, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    flipfire, Aug 20, 2008
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