unable to load windows XP on lenovo S10 using external DVDRW

[msi1337]

took the hard drive with default lenovo image from my lenovo Y550 laptop and put it in my lenovo s10 netbook. of course the windows 7 image wouldnt load since it was a different laptop.

I used my external dvdrw to boot from a windows xp disc to install it on the netbook and got an error. I didnt know what could cause it, so I took the hard drive out put it on a USB>SATA cable and completely removed the hidden partition (or restore partition) and the main partition and formatted the drive as NTFS.

now, when I boot off the windows xp disc it gets all the way to the point where it finishes loading the initial drivers and blue screens with an error code of 0x0000007B

I have tried to set the bios on the netbook to "compatible" or to "AHCI". neither one matters, I still can never get to the point where I can load windows setup.

any ideas? I cannot think what I am missing.. I doubt there is any kind of jumper on the drive (since it is SATA).

any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[heymrdj]

Windows XP probably won't work unless you can get the driver for the controller. Even without AHCI enable, if the internal SATA controller isn't a standard (which XP had very drivers for anyways) then it's going to 7B. If you try to load Vista or 7, it probably won't do this.

 

[msi1337]

got it..used a new version SP3 of Windows XP and it works fine.