Will XP partitioner recognize/overwrite linux partitions?

[BZeto]

I'm trying to load XP on a Dell latitude D620 laptop that had Ubuntu installed. Whenever I boot from an XP disk I get a blue screen stop error 0x0000007E right after it loads all the drivers. It mentioned pci.sys. I've tried several XP disks with the same result.

So I tried my Vista Ultimate disk and I can actually get into the setup where I can manage and format partitions. I deleted both ubuntu partitions and formated a new ntfs partition. Rebooted with my XP disk and I get the same blue screen as before... There must a be a bios or hardware issue here. I'm installing vista on it right now but I dont plan on keeping it. I suppose I'll try again after I get vista installed. If it happens again I'll record the entire error message. Any idea's on what could be causing this?

 

[BZeto]

No surprise, same blue screen when booting from XP disk.

 

[The Keeper]

Well, this MS KB article would be a start: http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;330182

Should Vista install and work fine, try reinstalling XP SP2 from a clean install media, don't use modified install media and make sure you have SP2 included in the XP install media.

Also, have you already reformatted the partition where XP is installed?

 

[rasczak]

sounds like youre having memory iisues. anyway you can run memtest86 to verify? as for the media portion i'm kinda inclined to disagree since you've had this happen to both xp and vista discs. you can try looking at the cd/dvd reader lens to see if it is dirty/smudged but i don't what you could use to clean it with.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: rasczak
sounds like youre having memory iisues. anyway you can run memtest86 to verify? as for the media portion i'm kinda inclined to disagree since you've had this happen to both xp and vista discs. you can try looking at the cd/dvd reader lens to see if it is dirty/smudged but i don't what you could use to clean it with.

It hasnt happened with a Vista disk, only XP disks. The first was a 'modified' XP pro disk, the second was an genuine OEM XP home disk. I'll run memtest later for the heck of it, Vista installed and is working fine though. I had originally planned on XP though because certain admin toolkits dont work with Vista at all.

 

[BZeto]

Ok, did a little more research and found that I need an XP disk with SP2 on it. I coulda swore my first xp disk had sp2 on it though. The Keeper was right on track with his suggestion, thanks!