Psychedelia
Junior Member
Hi -
I've run into a stange situation. I installed the XP-Pro 64 bit preview, and all is pretty much fine and well except for the usual driver problems here and there, but due to the need for compatibility with a couple of apps I need to install the normal version of XP-Pro.
So, I dug out Partition Magic, went through the steps of telling it to create a new primary partition, and when it rebooted (and would normally go through the process of creating that partition) it simply reboots, and when I go into partition magic, everything is the same as it was before with no evidence that I even tried to create a new partition.
I tried again, put the setup CD in the drive anyway and as I expected, it showed the partition that already existed (with the 64 bit version on) and wanted to install it over that after reformatting. So, I stopped it from doing so and I'm stuck now, I'm back where I started with XP-64 but no apparent way to create a partition to install normal XP.
Has anyone run into this before, and have you any suggestions? I'd guess that it might work if I reformatted everything, installed XP (32) first and then XP-64, but I've spent a week getting my file system sorted, installing the right drivers and apps and so on, you know the score.
Err, help! :/
I've run into a stange situation. I installed the XP-Pro 64 bit preview, and all is pretty much fine and well except for the usual driver problems here and there, but due to the need for compatibility with a couple of apps I need to install the normal version of XP-Pro.
So, I dug out Partition Magic, went through the steps of telling it to create a new primary partition, and when it rebooted (and would normally go through the process of creating that partition) it simply reboots, and when I go into partition magic, everything is the same as it was before with no evidence that I even tried to create a new partition.
I tried again, put the setup CD in the drive anyway and as I expected, it showed the partition that already existed (with the 64 bit version on) and wanted to install it over that after reformatting. So, I stopped it from doing so and I'm stuck now, I'm back where I started with XP-64 but no apparent way to create a partition to install normal XP.
Has anyone run into this before, and have you any suggestions? I'd guess that it might work if I reformatted everything, installed XP (32) first and then XP-64, but I've spent a week getting my file system sorted, installing the right drivers and apps and so on, you know the score.
Err, help! :/
