lad
January 5th, 2008, 06:03 AM
with help in this tread http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=192957#14
I have made great progress, but...I am afraid I have to turn for help again.
I am still trying to create a dual booting notebook with vista and xp. The finish line seems in sight, but i cannot reach it yet. The vista is HP-OEM, the HD is sata.
With help from MudCrab I have been able to make to make OSS recognize oem-vista and went on to install xp, according to his instructions in the tread above above
The installation of xp proved very difficult, partly as expected because xp does not recognize the sata HD. Nlite (www.nliteos.com) brought help.
Additional problems arose with my xp cd’s and product keys. I have a dell oem xp sp1 CD with key and generic upgrade xp sp2 cd (a student version) with key. I didn’t want to use the dell cd because it is sp1 and because have experienced in the past that it would not boot other than dell pc’s. I guess it checks the bios for that. So I used to the upgrade (during the several installation attempts it sometimes asked for a xphome or win2K cd, but not always) cd and worked it with nlite. The installation failed at the point where the product key needs to be entered:unvalid. I used both the cd’s own key and the dell key. I got a generic oem xp sp2 cd from my dealer, worked it with nlite again and used my dell key: finally BINGO.
I have reformatted the partition intended for xp between each attempt. In between I reactivated oss once and noted that is had marked my xp installation attempts as an “unknown operating system”.
After the xp installation finally worked, I reactivated oss and found 2 “unknown operating systems” ! (next to vista). Before reactivating oss, I noted that, when I boot into xp, I have the choice between 2 “windows xp professional”. At different times, I have either not made a choice or choose the top one.
When in oss, i try to boot the unknown operating system (2), it fails and says that the file system of the operating system is not supported. The properties are as follows:
boot configuration: write the boot sector is ticked, the other items are not. (In the vista operation system properties, the write boot sector item is not ticked)
partitions:
vista (#1-1), not active, hidden
oss (#1-3), not active, not hidden
acronis sz (#1-5) active is grayed, not hidden
local disk (#1-2) avtive, not hidden, both tick boxes are grayed (i suppose my xp is here)
all are ntfs, except for acronis sz, which is fat32
note: there is no (#1-4)
the other menu items: folders and files have nothing to display
DD in manual mode reports the following:
vista primary, hidden
ntfs (c:) primary, active
oss (d:) primary
acronis sz
any suggestions ?, many thanks in advance, Luc
I have made great progress, but...I am afraid I have to turn for help again.
I am still trying to create a dual booting notebook with vista and xp. The finish line seems in sight, but i cannot reach it yet. The vista is HP-OEM, the HD is sata.
With help from MudCrab I have been able to make to make OSS recognize oem-vista and went on to install xp, according to his instructions in the tread above above
The installation of xp proved very difficult, partly as expected because xp does not recognize the sata HD. Nlite (www.nliteos.com) brought help.
Additional problems arose with my xp cd’s and product keys. I have a dell oem xp sp1 CD with key and generic upgrade xp sp2 cd (a student version) with key. I didn’t want to use the dell cd because it is sp1 and because have experienced in the past that it would not boot other than dell pc’s. I guess it checks the bios for that. So I used to the upgrade (during the several installation attempts it sometimes asked for a xphome or win2K cd, but not always) cd and worked it with nlite. The installation failed at the point where the product key needs to be entered:unvalid. I used both the cd’s own key and the dell key. I got a generic oem xp sp2 cd from my dealer, worked it with nlite again and used my dell key: finally BINGO.
I have reformatted the partition intended for xp between each attempt. In between I reactivated oss once and noted that is had marked my xp installation attempts as an “unknown operating system”.
After the xp installation finally worked, I reactivated oss and found 2 “unknown operating systems” ! (next to vista). Before reactivating oss, I noted that, when I boot into xp, I have the choice between 2 “windows xp professional”. At different times, I have either not made a choice or choose the top one.
When in oss, i try to boot the unknown operating system (2), it fails and says that the file system of the operating system is not supported. The properties are as follows:
boot configuration: write the boot sector is ticked, the other items are not. (In the vista operation system properties, the write boot sector item is not ticked)
partitions:
vista (#1-1), not active, hidden
oss (#1-3), not active, not hidden
acronis sz (#1-5) active is grayed, not hidden
local disk (#1-2) avtive, not hidden, both tick boxes are grayed (i suppose my xp is here)
all are ntfs, except for acronis sz, which is fat32
note: there is no (#1-4)
the other menu items: folders and files have nothing to display
DD in manual mode reports the following:
vista primary, hidden
ntfs (c:) primary, active
oss (d:) primary
acronis sz
any suggestions ?, many thanks in advance, Luc