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Question

Installing XP on secondary hard drive

Jun 16, 2012 5:40PM PDT

Hello I have a 2.0 TB hard drive for the good OS(Windows 7 Proffestional) and a 80GB hard drive for the XP For older games When ever I try installing the XP on the 80GB HDD it gets a blue screen but when I flip back to the 2.0 TB it works, the 80GB HDD works because I just had Windows 7 Home premium on it and it ran it perfect.

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See also
Jun 16, 2012 10:42PM PDT

my reply to your other thread in the Win 7 forum.

I will lock that one now.

Don't forget to look up XP and SATA

Mark

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You could try this
Jun 16, 2012 10:36PM PDT

Disconnect the Win 7 drive and then wipe the 80gb drive clean of data and all partitions. I tend to prefer the manufacturer's utility to do this but there's also "dban". Once done, and with the Win7 drive still disconnected, try again to install XP. I'll presume the old drive is PATA and not SATA as, otherwise, you'll need to pre-install the appropriate drivers. If your XP won't install, you've at least eliminated the presence of the Win7 installation as being involved.

You didn't mention your ultimate goal. If you're looking to dual boot, having completely separate drives with 2 operating systems will work by BIOS selection of the boot drive. If you want otherwise, the order in which the operating systems are installed can affect your success.