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XP won't install on Vista SATA computer
I've been trying to go to XP on my Medion 8824 PC, since Vista is just awful, won't work with the programs I need.
The system has a 320gb SATA HDD. I wiped the HDD with the Vista recovery disc and after much wasted time, I found out I need a SATA driver to install XP. Since I have no floppy, I integrated the driver into an XP image using a guide and now it detects my HDD fine. It also has three "Uknown Disk Drive - No disk in Drive" errors above the C: partition which I can only guess to be the card readers.
Anyway once I've chosen the C: partition I install the setup files and the system reboots, when I remove the XP CD, the system says Booting from disc, than as soon as it tries to boot from the hard drive the system resets back to the bios. It then does this over and over. I have no idea what could be wrong and I have messed around with the bios disabling stuff and trying to get XP to continue the install, but no go. It just keep resetting. I've tried installing XP multiple times, formatting the HDD in XP, but nothing. I'm stumped. And I don't know much about SATA or bios configuration....
Any help appreciated. Oh also I can'tcreate a partition on the C: within the installer, don't know if that's normal. I can delete it though. Also the XP CD has no service packs either.
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Okay, I'll integrate it and give it a shot, if that's the problem, I think I'll punch the wall
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heres your prob
I install the setup files and the system reboots, when I remove the XP CD, "
leave cd in, its not done, dont hit press any key next boot and itll boot to hd
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If I leave the CD in it starts the installation from scratch.
I had a situation just last week where a client had a fairly new laptop with Vista on it - which hardly worked - and wanted it taken off and XP put on.
I used a boot disk to access the hard drive and renamed a couple of folders so that the XP install wouldn't think there was a version of Windows already on the drive, then started the XP install.
All went well until about halfway through and it started throwing up errors saying it couldn't read or write a handful of files.
I clicked "Ignore" and the install completed but heaps of things were missing or wouldn't work.
I found the solution was to reformat the hard drive (something I do ONLY when necessary) and do the XP install again - which was 100% effective this time, only it took me a long time to find drivers that would work with this particular laptop under XP - as it was designed more for Vista.
My XP install disc has SP2 integrated, and I used the IT install of SP3 to update the machine. So far all is good.
it will come to me but I think it is something to do with HDD/sata settings in BIOS..... let me scratch my head 4 a while....
Originally Posted by kotd1
it will only start from scratch if you hit press any key.
boot to xp cd
does it see the hard drive parti8tions?
delete them all, make new partition 100gig o9r so
qui8ck fo9rmat ntfs style,install on that
ps, if it trys to i8nstall wi8thout seeing partitions keep booting to cd till it does.
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It doesn't even ask to press any key. I just tried it with integrated service pack 2. Same thing, install the initial setup fine, reboots, I leave the disc in and it starts the initial installer from scratch. I don't press any key. If I take the CD out, it just keeps rebooting the bios over and over.
Hope it comes to you Navy Blue, I've wasted half a day on this....
It sees one HDD partition (306,000 something MB) yes. You want me to delete it? I can't create any new ones on it but I can delete this one partition.
It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Phil, you're a genius. I guess 300gb is too large for the install. This has frustrated me for hours to no end, I'm so glad it's installing.
Thanks mate
np
300 is all it sees as rest is for system restore
but u dont want 300g c drive anyway
make a D and or E once in xp
and keep porn n stuff on them and safe from xp
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Okay everything fine now except for the display driver. It's a 8500 GT 256mb. I downloaded the Nvidia drivers and they failed. Just gave me a black screen of death when installing. The medion website only has vista display drivers. The VGA driver I'm on now sucks :S any idea?
did u get this 1
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That's the one. It starts installing then I get a black screen and a blinking _ in the top left corner like a dos screen. So I have to restart. Maybe it's not recognising the PCI express card? I'm downloading service pack 3 right now. It'll be done in 10 min, maybe that will help.
make sure you don't have a virus app running when you install the driver.
Don't even have antivirus installed. Unless windows firewall counts...I even did something I thought was clever. I extracted the EXE with winrar and went through manual driver updating through the windows device manager. I then pointed to the files extracted, that worked for a little bit then gave me the black screen of death
Try these drivers:
Get the NGO NVIDIA Optimized Driver 1.16369 for windows xp
I've had a few little problems with offical Nvidia drivers.
These are optimized drivers made from the offical nvidia drivers.
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