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Blue screen of death on Windows XP installation (other OS okay)

  • 26-01-2009 01:33PM
    #1
    runswithascript
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭


    I used GParted to shrink 5GB from a 20GB ext3 partition and formatted the former as NTFS for a Windows XP Professional Corporate Edition installation using a disc which installs fine on other boxes.

    About 60 seconds after seeing the blue Windows XP setup screen and before it prompts me for any information I get the blue screen, I've tried a few times with the same result everytime and curiously I've booted into and am using Ubuntu on the same computer and HDD with no issues.

    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    runswithascript
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭runswithascript


    From IRC and if relevant it is SATA:
    12:49 < MJammeR> laeg - check your harddisk type
    12:49 < MJammeR> if it is sata then you have to do something ...
    12:49 -!- MJammeR [~Jammer@212.118.102.188] has quit []


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,460 ✭✭✭✭watty


    There was a thread a few days ago. You need either a slipstreamed XP CD with the sata driver or floppy (or USB dongle that looks like floppy without OS boot). Then during setup select the Sata driver (exact method depends on 3 x floppy XP boot, or slipstream or interupt CD boot install to install sata via floppy/USB).

    YOu can't swap out XP install CD to access SATA driver on a CD.

    OR:
    Select IDE compatibility mode in BIOS for SATA controller. May break other OS!

    XP install CDs have no included SATA driver, Not a new issue, as there always since 1993 existed NT HW that needed separate driver for Disc controller on Floppy.


  • #4
    runswithascript
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭runswithascript


    watty wrote: »
    There was a thread a few days ago. You need either a slipstreamed XP CD with the sata driver or floppy (or USB dongle that looks like floppy without OS boot). Then during setup select the Sata driver (exact method depends on 3 x floppy XP boot, or slipstream or interupt CD boot install to install sata via floppy/USB).

    YOu can't swap out XP install CD to access SATA driver on a CD.

    OR:
    Select IDE compatibility mode in BIOS for SATA controller. May break other OS!

    XP install CDs have no included SATA driver, Not a new issue, as there always since 1993 existed NT HW that needed separate driver for Disc controller on Floppy.

    Thanks, I'm looking into this now but so far the only guides I've found require me to use a windows only program called NLite with the HDD driver and to do this they assume you already have windows installed which I don't, I've only linux...


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