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    Can't install Windows on my new Vaio SR :(

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by nycguy620, Dec 15, 2009.

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    nycguy620 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got my new Sony Vaio SR. I'm going to burn the recovery discs, and then wipe the entire hard drive clean and get rid of all the partitions and install Windows 2000 and Windows XP. But neither Win2k nor WinXP setup will run for some reason. After the initial phase where Setup loads the drivers, it goes to a blue screen before the next phase even comes up. The Windows 2000 setup BSOD says "the ACPI BIOS in the system is not fully complaint..." and the Windows XP just gives a generic blue screen message. Anybody know what's wrong here?
     
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    cyco78 Newbie

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    I dont know if this is still the case but i tried installing xp onto a vista desktop that my friend baught for his mum. So i threw in the disc as you normally would and booted it through startup as your normally would, we let setup run which took 4 hours! only to come to realise that hard drive crashed :\ so i had a chat to someone and they said that the best thing to do was (obviously buy a new hard drive, if yours is still working by this stage you dont need a new one) then partition your HDD 10gb or so for vista and then the rest for xp

    as i said, im not sure if this is still the case but it will work 100% and you wont need to risk crashing a HDD
     
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    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    You need to slipstream or load the Intel SATA driver before installing XP, because XP doesn't have the SATA controller driver built in.
     
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    nycguy620 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yea, I figured this was probably the case, but the ACPI and BIOS stuff threw me off. I'm not sure what why that's the error I"m getting.

    Anyone know if the Intel SATA driver will work with Win2k too?
     
    nycguy620, Dec 15, 2009
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