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    HP laptop Dual Boot Issue

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by dwilliams, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. dwilliams

    dwilliams Newbie

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    I have an HP laptop with Vista installed. Here is my issue
    1. I have 2 hard drives. Vista is on one.
    2. I installed XP on the other using my Dell laptop because the HP machine will not allow my XP install CD to see the drive.
    3. When I put the XP hard drive in the second hard drive bay my HP machine does not see the XP on the drive.
    4. If I put the Vista drive in the second bay and the xp drive (which works in my Dell) the HP does not see the XP system in bay one and tells me I have no operating system to boot to.
    5. I see no way in the BIO to tell it to try booting from hard drive bay 2.
    6. I do not have the Vista DVD and HP will not provide one only a HP recovery CD which will not allow me to get to the Vista install screens.
    So the I'm stuck any thoughts
     
    dwilliams, Jul 11, 2008
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  2. CGSUN

    CGSUN Notebook Guru

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    Does vista work?
    I am having trouble understanding past your number 2.
    I would think a partition is a much simpler option?
     
    CGSUN, Jul 11, 2008
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  3. mattbieg892

    mattbieg892 Notebook Geek

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    On HP Laptops (as well as I think most other brands), you cannot select which Internal Hard drive to boot from. It will only show CD-ROM, External drive, or notebook drive. I had the same problem because I had a 2nd drive that ran super hot in Bay 1, but could only be installed in Bay 1 because of the issue of not being able to select the individual drive boot order.

    So, if I understand correctly, you're trying to install your Dell OEM XP on your Dell, and then transfer it to your HP so you don't have to pay for another OS copy? It's probably not detecting XP because it's never been run or installed on the HP before. What you should do is try a repair Installation. Here's a good link about moving a Hard drive with an OS to another computer:

    http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html#3

    One other thing you may have a problem with is re-activiation once you get it up and running on your HP. XP may deny you activation because it's a Dell Branded OS running on an HP Computer.
     
    mattbieg892, Jul 11, 2008
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  4. CGSUN

    CGSUN Notebook Guru

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    Shouldn’t be a problem, I use my IBM OEM XP disc (svp1) on all sorts of brands and use their activation code. I install via i386/winnt.exe
     
    CGSUN, Jul 11, 2008
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    1) Your HP has no boot record of XP because it was installed in your Dell notebook.

    2) The SATA drivers were not slipstreamed, causing it not to see the drive at all.
     
    flipfire, Jul 12, 2008
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