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    Urgent, Need help with XP Installation -> x61

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by diuqil, Feb 22, 2008.

  1. diuqil

    diuqil Notebook Enthusiast

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    Greetings,

    I never thought I'd have so much troubling installing XP (downgrade from Vista), even though I've installed XP before.

    So I set my system to boot from my USB DVD driver.

    I deleted all my partitions, reformatted. The computer even copies all the install files.

    As soon as that's done, my computer reboots itself (15 second count down). Instead of bringing me to an XP setup screen to set everything up, it brings up the blue XP installation menu again. I reformatted a second time, cause I thought I did something wrong... same thing. After copying the install files, it reboots and goes back to the blue screen.

    What did I over look?
     
    diuqil, Feb 22, 2008
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  2. sipp11

    sipp11 Notebook Consultant

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    First thing I can think of is changing the SATA mode to compatibility mode (in BIOS), then try again.
     
    sipp11, Feb 22, 2008
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  3. Anthony M

    Anthony M Newbie

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    I am having this same problem. I set the BIOS HDD to "Compatibility" but cannot reboot after the setup completes copying the files inorder to get to the second GUI part of the XP Installation...

    Any Ideas???

    Thanks!
     
    Anthony M, Feb 29, 2008
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    h335 Notebook Guru

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    did u figure this out?
     
    h335, Apr 10, 2008
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    Anthony M Newbie

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    I was not able to get XP installed on the machine. I think it has something to do with the Recovery partition not allowing other boot-loaders to be installed. I also tried installing Ubuntu but got to about the same point, the installer failed at the boot-loader installation.
     
    Anthony M, Apr 10, 2008
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