problem in dual bootin

hi pals
i have got a big problem, i bought a new hp notebook with vista installed and when i tried to dual boot the system after creating the partition it says that the there is no hard disk detected in ur system ,this msg comes when i strat installin xp in the system. help me out fellas

 

I had the same problem when I tried to dualboot, but what you need to do is slipstream the SATA driver for your hard drive in to your Windows Xp cd. Since Windows XP doesn't come with the SATA driver, it will not recognize your hard drive. Since i have a intel chipset, i downloaded the driver from their website. Also for the slipstream step i used the nLite software. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

There is an easier way if you don't want to go through the trouble of slipstreaming.

Before booting with XP CD, just go in your BIOS and change the SATA setting to "Compatibility" mode. You will change this back after XP installation, then install the proper SATA driver.

Also, when you're installing XP with Vista installed already, once you installed XP, you won't be able to boot into your Vista again because the XP boot manager took over. You will have to use your Vista DVD and fix the Vista boot manager afterward. Here is a good step-by-step guide:

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm

 

not all BIOS has the "native SATA" option.

My dv2000 does but my dv2500 doesnt.

 

See the sticky in this subforum and it will tell you exactly what to do

 

In order to get XP to dual boot with Vista you must install XP first and then Vista. I did not had the HDD problem you are having but that is how I got it working when I was dualbooting XP-Vista.

 

I always see people use one harddrive for dual boot, are someone using 2 harddrives for dual boot ? I mean one HD for Vista and another HD for XP, I tried that but it did not work, I used EasyBCD1.7, if someone are using 2 HD for dual boot and works please tell me how to set it up. Thanks.

 

True, didn't keep that in mind.

Not true, my dual-boot Vista/XP, I installed Vista first on purpose because I wanted Vista to be at the beginning of the drive. You can install them in either sequence, it will work if you're installing them with the correct method.

It does work, dual boot doesn't have to be on the same HDD. You just have to edit your boot.ini file to point to the right disc/partition for the 2nd OS. Either using EasyBCD or the built-in BCDEdit command line tool will work.

Check out this tutorial on BCDEdit:

http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79102

The Vista boot loader will still point to the XP boot.ini file when booting to XP, so maybe it's just the entry in your XP boot.ini file is wrong. Let's say your Vista HDD is the first HDD on the same adapter as your XP HDD, then your XP "rdisk" should be "rdisk(1)" being the second HDD on the same adapter.

In your XP boot.ini file, you should see some entries that look like this:

multi(w)disk(x)rdisk(y)partition(z)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP"

So in my example as I assume your 2nd HDD being on the same adapter, your entry should be like this instead:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP"