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    Dual booting Vista & XP?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by ninjapilot, Sep 3, 2008.

  1. ninjapilot

    ninjapilot Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all i have partitioned my hard disk into 2 so i can dual boot Xp being the OS to install, but xp comes up with 'can't find hard disk to install'
    the disc is an XP home upgrade disc, i used to be able to do it on my old desktop sytem.

    what am i missing lads any ideas?? hopefully the remedy isn't to obvious :eek:

    it wouldn't be turbo mem module causing the trouble would it?


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    ninjapilot, Sep 3, 2008
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    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    It's most like that the XP disc doesn't include SATA support (I think it was included in the SP2a discs, but not earlier).

    The best workaround is to use nLite to create your own XP installation disc including all the R70 XP drivers and SP3 for XP.

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    John Ratsey, Sep 4, 2008
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    Oh yes of course, i didn't think of that, that will make installation easier, so i can put it all on one dvd? thanks john for the quick answer :D


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    Hi john i have slipstreamed sp3 into xp disc but still says no hard drive found :confused:

    Thanks

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    ninjapilot, Sep 5, 2008
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    My next guess is that AHCI is enabled in the BIOS. See here about installing the Intel matrix storage driver. I recall that if you turn AHCI off in the BIOS then Vista will BSOD when it boots because it doesn't have the right driver.

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    i did have to disable AHCI in bios, Xp would start to load with sp3 slipstreamed onto disc, i thought great i was home and dry.
    but when entering xp key said that the key was incorrect (its an upgrade disc but a legal copy), so i couldn't do any more, and my vista install wouldn't work after that, so i had to start from scratch and install vista again.
    i will have to put xp soon as i find vista is slow but don't want to mess up my vista installation.
    im going to also remove the turbo memory module as i found it made little difference tbh ( i have disabled it in the bios)

    thank you for your help :cool:

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    ninjapilot, Sep 8, 2008
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