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hi. i have two drives C and D, i have a vista 64bit on C and i tried to
install my 64bit xp to D , but when i put in the cd, and everyting is
loaded and its time to ask that do i want to format my drive, the blue
screen appears, and says that i have a virus or sg, and the computer
stopped the booting due to my safety. i tried different copies of xp, i
downloaded from my university`s page and wrote it on a cd but it says
every time the same. however installing ubuntu wasn`t a problem. a put
in, install, and it`s running fine. please help
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BejczyP
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You need to install to a blank drive. Remove the partition for D:
Leave it as free space. Boot from the Vista x64 DVD. Create the
partition in Vista. It needs to be 40GB + RAM. So 8GB of RAM would
need 48GB minimum.
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SCSIraidGURU
Michael A. McKenney
'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com)
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isn`t formatting the D in vista enough? my D is 10gb big, so xp has more
then enough space to run, i don`t think i need 48 gb for xp
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BejczyP
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"BejczyP" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> isn`t formatting the D in vista enough? my D is 10gb big, so xp has more
> then enough space to run, i don`t think i need 48 gb for xp
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> BejczyP
I agree, 10GB is enough for XP, provided you don't intend to
install large apps such as MS Office on the drive. XP 64 bit
is larger than 32 bit as you have both 64 and 32 bit Program
Files and System directories.
If you can, I would recommend disconnecting the Vista HD
before installing XP, although, if you have IDE drives, the
XP drive jumper would have to be temporarily changed.
The advantage of this is that, if you boot into Vista, or XP,
each is running on C:, and sees the other OS as on D:.
Another thing to try, is wipe the XP drive with all zeros.
There are many utilities available to do this that will boot
from a floppy. With the Vista drive disconnected, and
the XP drive totally clean, there should be no impediments
to the XP install.
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Hi,
Don't create the volume in Vista, just leave it as free space. XP setup will
create the volume and format as part of the installation. The reason for
this is that there were some minor changes to the manner in which ntfs is
implemented in Vista, and XP cannot install to a Vista formatted volume,
though it can read one just fine.
Also, note that when you boot to XP, it will erase any restore points
created by the Vista installation unless the Vista volume is either
encrypted or hidden by the use of a third party boot manager.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"BejczyP" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> hi. i have two drives C and D, i have a vista 64bit on C and i tried to
> install my 64bit xp to D , but when i put in the cd, and everyting is
> loaded and its time to ask that do i want to format my drive, the blue
> screen appears, and says that i have a virus or sg, and the computer
> stopped the booting due to my safety. i tried different copies of xp, i
> downloaded from my university`s page and wrote it on a cd but it says
> every time the same. however installing ubuntu wasn`t a problem. a put
> in, install, and it`s running fine. please help
>
>
> --
> BejczyP
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You should always install the older system first. If you are talking about
1 physical drive, you will overwrite the boot record and you will only be
able to boot into XP. You will need to run the startup repair on the Vista
install DVD, so make sure you have one.
"BejczyP" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:9c9c66d26d13a03f4e98e3820ff41d8f[ at ]nntp-gateway.com...
[Quoted Text] >
> isn`t formatting the D in vista enough? my D is 10gb big, so xp has more
> then enough space to run, i don`t think i need 48 gb for xp
>
>
> --
> BejczyP
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