Installing XP over Vista Home Premium - Page 2

**bakuryu** · 12-10-2007, 01:39 PM

is your harddisk sata or raid ?

yadav_chiranjeevi · 12-10-2007, 02:34 PM

Hi, I recently bought a DELL INSPIRON 1720 LAPTOP with vista home premimum operating system. I just don't like vista at all and I bought a xp with sp2. I want to install xp in the desktop. I inserted the disk and changed under boot menu to boot from cdrom, but after I pressed F8 to agree the terms, it sis saying that "power on ur harddisk ,right now it is powered off" and when i press ok button on the screen then the setup was exited ,Could you please tell me how come? And i think problably i have to format vista first, then install xp. But i really dont know how to format vista.

**bakuryu** · 12-10-2007, 06:49 PM

it seems like XP is not detecting your hard drives.

Reboot your system and hit F2 as soon as you see the Dell startup screen.

n the System Setup screen, do these steps.

Select Drives:
Make sure your Diskette Drive (3.5 floppy) is set properly (Usually set to Internal)
Make sure that "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON"

next Go to "SATA Operation":

Your system probably came set to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI"

CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION"

reboot and boot from XP CD, this time you should be able to successfully install XP.

Once you finish installing XP, change the setting back to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI"

jeffatdell · 08-01-2008, 11:41 PM

You can always get help (for free) at http://www.dellcommunity.com/support...rd.id=sw_winxp

**Chef** · 10-02-2008, 09:42 AM

THIS IS A PUBLIC ADVERTISEMENT!!!!SPONSERED BY MATTHEW KANE, Q4 CHAMP....

IF ANY ONE HAS PROBLEMS WITH INSTALLING XP, AND THEN BSOD'S AFTER INITIALIZE SCREEN WHEN BOOTING FROM A XP DISC, AND U HAVE RAID OR AHCI ENABLED, USE NLITE TO SLIPSTREAM DRIVERS FOR UR RAID ONTO A NEW XP DISC, or : http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-98-...-vista-xp.html

**Strider** · 10-02-2008, 03:26 PM

Quote:

THIS IS A PUBLIC ADVERTISEMENT!!!!SPONSERED BY MATTHEW KANE, Q4 CHAMP....

lol.

Btw. Better not using all caps in posts mate.

**Chef** · 11-02-2008, 02:35 AM

ok....yeh kinda wanna keep it standing out to all readers...so yeah....no caps nxt time..lmao

(P.S
I had to learn it the hard way of trying to get XP boot properly loading up in the above link Baku edited in my advertisement.......Learned it from own problems........)

Wolfie276 · 11-02-2008, 03:14 AM

hmmmm...looks like dell dont want u to even get close 2 install XP when u buy it as vista :S

**Chef** · 11-02-2008, 01:09 PM

well Wofie , if u r talking about that way, then HP won't let u install XP as well.....Its just any computer which has some kind raid software installed...XP boot will just BSOD after initialization during POST periods........

In other words, a much worse problem then this happened to me trying dual boot with Vista preinstalled had the same affects as the person who started this thread.......(thnx to Baku edit the link to my thread and u can read about my big adventure with XP BSOD'S....the link is above on ma public advertisement)!!!!!!

Wolfie276 · 11-02-2008, 07:05 PM

hmm...then its vista itself...
i mean...what u expect from microsoft?since they want money all the time they prolly block u from a possible piracy OS...since vista is protected against piracy and XP isnt it dont suprise me if its vista itself

12-10-2007, 01:39 PM	#11
bakuryu ƒ(ψ)=Θº×φ Join Date: May 2006 Location: India Age: 22 Posts: 5,032 Thanks: 12 Thanked 392 Times in 362 Posts Rep Power: 69	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium is your harddisk sata or raid ?

12-10-2007, 02:34 PM	#12
yadav_chiranjeevi Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Age: 25 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Rep Power: 0	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium Hi, I recently bought a DELL INSPIRON 1720 LAPTOP with vista home premimum operating system. I just don't like vista at all and I bought a xp with sp2. I want to install xp in the desktop. I inserted the disk and changed under boot menu to boot from cdrom, but after I pressed F8 to agree the terms, it sis saying that "power on ur harddisk ,right now it is powered off" and when i press ok button on the screen then the setup was exited ,Could you please tell me how come? And i think problably i have to format vista first, then install xp. But i really dont know how to format vista.

12-10-2007, 06:49 PM	#13
bakuryu ƒ(ψ)=Θº×φ Join Date: May 2006 Location: India Age: 22 Posts: 5,032 Thanks: 12 Thanked 392 Times in 362 Posts Rep Power: 69	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium it seems like XP is not detecting your hard drives. Reboot your system and hit F2 as soon as you see the Dell startup screen. n the System Setup screen, do these steps. Select Drives: Make sure your Diskette Drive (3.5 floppy) is set properly (Usually set to Internal) Make sure that "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON" next Go to "SATA Operation": Your system probably came set to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI" CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION" reboot and boot from XP CD, this time you should be able to successfully install XP. Once you finish installing XP, change the setting back to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI" __________________ Please don't click here

08-01-2008, 11:41 PM	#14
jeffatdell Newbie Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Rep Power: 0	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium You can always get help (for free) at http://www.dellcommunity.com/support...rd.id=sw_winxp

10-02-2008, 09:42 AM	#15
Chef Hardware Support Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: C:/Program Files/Games/FPS Age: 16 Posts: 701 Thanks: 54 Thanked 20 Times in 20 Posts Rep Power: 8	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium THIS IS A PUBLIC ADVERTISEMENT!!!!SPONSERED BY MATTHEW KANE, Q4 CHAMP.... IF ANY ONE HAS PROBLEMS WITH INSTALLING XP, AND THEN BSOD'S AFTER INITIALIZE SCREEN WHEN BOOTING FROM A XP DISC, AND U HAVE RAID OR AHCI ENABLED, USE NLITE TO SLIPSTREAM DRIVERS FOR UR RAID ONTO A NEW XP DISC, or : http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-98-...-vista-xp.html Last edited by bakuryu; 10-02-2008 at 03:24 PM.

11-02-2008, 02:35 AM	#17
Chef Hardware Support Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: C:/Program Files/Games/FPS Age: 16 Posts: 701 Thanks: 54 Thanked 20 Times in 20 Posts Rep Power: 8	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium ok....yeh kinda wanna keep it standing out to all readers...so yeah....no caps nxt time..lmao (P.S I had to learn it the hard way of trying to get XP boot properly loading up in the above link Baku edited in my advertisement.......Learned it from own problems........) Last edited by Chef; 11-02-2008 at 02:39 AM.

11-02-2008, 03:14 AM	#18
Wolfie276 Advanced Member (250+) Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 276 Thanks: 14 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Rep Power: 0	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium hmmmm...looks like dell dont want u to even get close 2 install XP when u buy it as vista :S

11-02-2008, 01:09 PM	#19
Chef Hardware Support Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: C:/Program Files/Games/FPS Age: 16 Posts: 701 Thanks: 54 Thanked 20 Times in 20 Posts Rep Power: 8	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium well Wofie , if u r talking about that way, then HP won't let u install XP as well.....Its just any computer which has some kind raid software installed...XP boot will just BSOD after initialization during POST periods........ In other words, a much worse problem then this happened to me trying dual boot with Vista preinstalled had the same affects as the person who started this thread.......(thnx to Baku edit the link to my thread and u can read about my big adventure with XP BSOD'S....the link is above on ma public advertisement)!!!!!!

11-02-2008, 07:05 PM	#20
Wolfie276 Advanced Member (250+) Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 276 Thanks: 14 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Rep Power: 0	Re: Installing XP over Vista Home Premium hmm...then its vista itself... i mean...what u expect from microsoft?since they want money all the time they prolly block u from a possible piracy OS...since vista is protected against piracy and XP isnt it dont suprise me if its vista itself

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