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My main laptop as you can see in my signature is an HP Pavilion DV6 2010sa Laptop, I am currently running the OEM OS on it which is Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I want to dual boot it with Windows XP Home Edition x32, but I have a problem, I have no disks and I do not want to lose any of my data on the machine at the moment. Any ideas on how I can do this because I know from experience that the Windows XP Boot Loader can NOT boot Windows 7. I do not want to risk losing any of my stuff and I do not know what to do :(
 
EclipticShell said:
Thankyou John. Where it says about SATA drives, why do I need drivers for it? I do not know whether my harddrive is IDE or SATA as it is a laptop drive so would I still be alright?
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Your laptop has a SATA drive. It's too new to use IDE. You'll need a SATA driver because XP doesn't have native SATA support.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Your laptop has a SATA drive. It's too new to use IDE. You'll need a SATA driver because XP doesn't have native SATA support.
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Dont worry about it, the CD gives me the blue screen of death before I can select anything and my BIOS wont give me any option to change from AHCI to IDE. It just dies before I can load drivers. I am right in putting a x86 XP onto a x64 Processor right? I know you should use the x64 on a x64 but apparently the driver interrogation for XP64 is awful, and the fact I have no licences either.
 
Thats the problem with installing XP onto laptops with no IDE/compatibility option. You'll need to install the sata controller driver at the F6 prompt at the beginning of the install. Finding the driver can be a pain in the butt though.
 
EclipticShell said:
Dont worry about it, the CD gives me the blue screen of death before I can select anything and my BIOS wont give me any option to change from AHCI to IDE. It just dies before I can load drivers. I am right in putting a x86 XP onto a x64 Processor right? I know you should use the x64 on a x64 but apparently the driver interrogation for XP64 is awful, and the fact I have no licences either.
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You don't need to run x64 on x64. You can run x86 on x64 without a problem. But yes, you need the SATA driver and install it with the F6 prompt.
 
I went to HP's support site. I didn't see XP drivers and I didn't see a SATA/AHCI driver.
 
Try using an SP3 disc if you're using an SP2 one, it's easy enough to use nLite and slipstream the service pack - SATA support may be better. Also, those SATA drivers used to come on floppy disks.
 
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