[realmusicians] Re: Perplexity!
- From: D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:09:46 -0500
You can't run xp setup from 7, because you're trying to go backwards.
You have to do an outside of windows install.
You'll need sited assistance or know your system well to do it by memory.
First thing's first, if your sata chipset is set to raid or ahci, get text
mode drivers for the controller, or windows xp will either crash with a BOSD
(Blue Screen of Deaf) or give you the "Nno installable disks were found"
error.
Another bigger problem, you'll need a floppy drive (built-in or external)
with those drivers on a disk. During the setup startup there's a portion
where you press f6 to load these drivers and select the controler etc. If
this is too much to deal with, go to bios, and set the sata mode or sata
type to legacy/IDE. This will run normally without drivers and the f6/floppy
drive.
Now, another issue which is probably why this isn't working for you in the
first place, when your computer is starting up, either 2 things happen:
1. it might display a quick prompt that says "press any key to boot from CD"
in which case you would strike a key on the keyboard and the computer would
boot from CD instead, and therefore start the xp setup.
2. The computer might expect you to press a key (usually f12, f11, or f10)
as it's booting up to enter boot menu or startup options. In this menu, it
shows you the various drives, you would then select cd rom from the list,
and it will proceed to boot from CD and load setup. Note that when using
this option it'll most likely also ask you to press a key to boot from CD,
even after you've selected the cd drive from the list; it's a security
feature.
From there you would load setup, press enter to start, press f8 to accept
license, use the partition manager to delete the current partitions, press
enter on the drive/space you'd like to use, select a format type, and it'll
start copying.
After that, it'll restart after 10-20 mins, and load more stuff, then it'll
launch the OOBE (out of box experience) ask for the user info etc.
HTH, D!J!X!
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:realmusicians-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Indigo
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:12 PM
To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [realmusicians] Perplexity!
Win7 64 doesn't seem to want to let me do a clean install of Win XP 32 on
top of it.
It's acting like Hal did in the movie, what's its name, Space Odyssey 2001?,
Win7 doesn't want to die.
I tried every way I know.
Autorun on the Win Xp install disk doesn't autorun.
Setup.exe is grayed out on the XP install disk, and does not respond to
either clicking from enter; or the physical mouse left click.
I thought I'd fool the machine by leaving the XP install disk in the DVD
drive, closed the tray, shut down the computer, waited a bit, then turned
power on, but the XP install disk was ignored and Win7 booted up normally.
I don't get it, what else is there to do?
I don't want to image this Win7 somewhere else, I don't need it.
I have it elsewhere on disk already.
Could I format drive C from within Win7?
I didn't try that, I supposed it wouldn't let me do it.
Should I partition the 1.5 TB drive first, and try to install XP on that
partition?
I thought that I'd have a problem when the computer re booted during the
installation process, it would boot to drive C where Win7 is installed, and
not to the partition where I was trying to install XP.
If I can, I'd rather do a clean install of drive C with XP, and wipe out
Win7, then partition later, if that's possible.
No, I don't have external tools, there's no floppy drive for those little
disk forematting and partitioning tools, and the tools I do have on CD are
miserably slow I forematted a 160 GB drive once with them, and it took all
day, it might take eternity to foremat a 1.5 TB drive, I have to do it with
Windows tools.
.Thanks for any advice,
Indigo L
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