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Dual Boot - XP & XP - Problems

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cgott42

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I have an IBM T60 laptop with Win XP Pro SP2 on it. I use Partion Magic v8 to create a 2nd partition on the HDD.
I'd like to install Win XP Home on the 2nd Partition.
(I want a clean boot up to work exclusively with video applications, as my Win XP Pro - gets bogged down by a lot of apps running on it) - I chose the Home version of XP for the 2nd partition - b/c I happen to have a license for that.

Anyway - Problem is that when I put the Win XP Home CD in it says that it does not see any Hard Drives to install onto????
I've set the partition to NTFS, Fat 32 - no difference. Also set to Primary or logical partition - still nada.

Any ideas?

TIA
 
Isn't that a waste?
I don't see why you cannot install the same OS with the same key on two different partitions on the same machine.
You can never boot both of those installations at the same time anyway.
Since it is the same identical hardware, there will be no problem with activation either.

What you are not supposed to do is to install the same OS with the same key on two different machines.

Anyway, I leave that to lawyers.


Did you reboot to the CD drive with the XP CD in it and it said it could not find a hard drive?
What version of XP CD is this? Is it pre-SP1?

By the way, you don't need to format the new partition, the XP installation routine can do that itself. You just need an existing partition, which you created with Partition Magic.
You can check that the new partition is created using the XP disk management.
 
Originally posted by: Navid
Did you reboot to the CD drive with the XP CD in it and it said it could not find a hard drive?
What version of XP CD is this? Is it pre-SP1?
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Yes I booted to the CD drive, and it said that it couldn't find ANY hard drives.
I'll check later, it might be pre-SP1. but I tried with XP Pro SP2 and got the same error.

 
Originally posted by: cgott42
Originally posted by: Navid
Did you reboot to the CD drive with the XP CD in it and it said it could not find a hard drive?
What version of XP CD is this? Is it pre-SP1?
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Yes I booted to the C: drive, and it said that it couldn't find ANY hard drives.
I'll check later, it might be pre-SP1. but I tried with XP Pro SP2 and got the same error.
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C: drive?
Or, CD drive?
What do you mean?
 
oops, I meant
I booted off of the CD drive (i.e. "hit any key to boot from CD drive")

I corrected my post above.
 
thanks.
yes I saw the black screen asking to hit any key to boot from CD, and
I saw all of the screens in your link up to (and including the one in step 7)
Which has a blue screen and asks you to hit ENTER to setup Windows XP

btw: I just checked and my disk is Win XP Home 2002 w/ SP2

 
Originally posted by: cgott42
thanks.
yes I saw the black screen asking to hit any key to boot from CD, and
I saw all of the screens in your link up to (and including the one in step 7)
Which has a blue screen and asks you to hit ENTER to setup Windows XP
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In that case, follow Smilin's suggestion.

Look here.
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and find your model and see if there is any driver for the SATA hard drive.

Edit:
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This is an example. It may not be for your model. You have to find your model.
Windows XP
Note: Be sure to install Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver before installing the operating system. Otherwise your computer will not respond; it will only display a blue screen .......
 
on T60/T61 you have to change the Sata mode in the BIOS from enhanced to compatable, or provide a floppy disk with AHCI drivers if you have a USB floppy
 
Originally posted by: DrGreen2007
on T60/T61 you have to change the Sata mode in the BIOS from enhanced to compatable, or provide a floppy disk with AHCI drivers if you have a USB floppy
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thanks! I'll try that.
 
Originally posted by: DrGreen2007
on T60/T61 you have to change the Sata mode in the BIOS from enhanced to compatable, or provide a floppy disk with AHCI drivers if you have a USB floppy
Click to expand...

Thanks I did this and worked great!

One other questions, after installing the drivers. Everything seems to work, but in device manager I have 2 yellow questions marks for devices - with no info on it "unknown"
How can I tell what they are so that I know what drivers to install?
I tried just clicking install drivers, and choosing the default auto find it options but nada.
thanks
 
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