Can I install XP on my HP V6000 Notebook

[ani23]

Got a good deal on the HP V6000 laptop at OD. unfortunately it came with Vista Basic installe don it.

Want to dual boot vista and XP but unfortunately the XP installer cant find the hard disks at all during installation.

Do I need to install some sort of driver prior to installation.

This is the drivers page

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfr...s&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us

Would greatly appreciate any help.

Thansk Guys

 

[Megatomic]

Yes. I formatted my new DV6000T and put my own copy of XP Pro on it. The system works very very well this way. Just no QuickPlay, but WTF cares about that?

 

[ani23]

how did you install XP. when I try to install it it cant detect the disks at all. do I have to insert a driver floppy or something?

thanks

 

[montag451]

If Vista is installed, then you would probably find less brain and heartache by formatting Vista, installing XP, then installing Vista for a dual boot.
Unless you would like to sample a third party boot software utility.
Some of them are beautiful and work fantastically, but if you get one that doesn't like your system for any reason, you've just wasted a lot of time.
So, to add to the above, I would recommend 'sector for sector' disk image clone made of your system before you play around with the boot sector. (Or you could take the chance and use the fixmbr command if it all goes pear shaped - you should still have one OS to boot into)

 

[ani23]

Actually its a friends system and he has it in real bad shape right now. he formatted the entire disk including the OS partition.

If he uses the Vista DVD to boot it can detect the disks and install without a problem. However if he tries using XP boot CD it cant detect any disk at all.

The big question is what are my options to get XP on this thing considering that by default XP cannot recognise the hard disks at all.

 

[montag451]

Are you sure the XP is a bootable version?

 

[montag451]

Just seen this one fella:


http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=2069420&STARTPAGE=1