XP Trouble

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locorcr

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Ok, My friends laptop had vista and he bought XP to install, I am computer literate in this type of stuff but this problem is over me. And yes XP is a full version, not an upgrade. When i tried to do a fresh install it kept giving me blue screen of death, tried to dual boot but again blue screen of death, durring both proccesses it would only get so far into copying files then blue screen. So I decided to do a complete wipe of his hard drive, did a full format, installed XP via my desktop. XP booted fine from my desktop with his HDD, placed his HDD back in his laptop and after bios computer would not read HDD, checked BIOS and it see's the HDD, just would not read XP. Installed Win 7 Beta and loads fine, Vista loaded fine, No clue why XP would not load, any help would be appriciated.

Chris

Laptop is:
Toshiba
AMD dual core @ 2.0GHz
3GB ram
 
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I know that for one, you can't use your desktop to load any OS and move it to a laptop because you'll run into all kinds of conflicts from going from one mobo to another. I'd say redo the full format and reinstall but with the HDD in the laptop and that should take care of your problem. Also, when you first tried installing XP onto the laptop, were you just doing it as a second partition on the HDD with Vista still installed?

EDIT: Reread your post and gathered that you did. I'm not sure what the issue is but I've heard of a lot of people having issues dual booting XP and Vista if they have Vista installed already and try to add XP. From what I've gathered, for some reason you have to install XP onto the first partition and Vista on the second. Maybe someone else can explain why.
 
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Yea MoBo issue's does make since but thought i would try. Also update, with Win 7 installed i try to install Xp, it loads all files and blue screen comes as it says windows is starting.
 
Most likely the hard drive is SATA and its configured as ahci in bios. You would need to load the driver for it upon the F6 prompt at the beginning of windows installation.
 
It's also possible that this system won't work with XP. Many newer systems aren't getting XP drivers and it's unlikely any new computers will be either. manufactures aren't going to make XP drivers for new hardware. With Windows 7 coming out this year that makes XP truely outdated. Check the Toshiba website and the website of the hardware makers to be sure there are XP drivers for the system.
 
You need driver for xp, like "Lawson says". If they don't have drivers on the web site for the laptop, it won't work.
 
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