Did you supply the usual SATA drivers during the XP install? If not it will do just as you wrote.
Bob
Hi all
I've tried to intall XP alongside Vista on my sister's laptop as she wasnt too thrilled with Vista.
Laptop is a HP DV9000 - AMD Turion 64 X2 which came with Vista pre-installed and no CD's
I followed a guide on the net, that said to shrink C drive and create a new partition for XP. Did that and assigned "B" as the drive letter
Then re-booted with XP CD (32 bit....is this the problem right here?) and attempted to install it on the new partition.
First thing I noticed was that the options for partitions were C: and E: (ie there was no B: drive). I just went along and installed it to E.
After the pre-installation was done, the PC reeboted (as normal) to continue with the XP intallation. Thing is.... a few seconds into the XP installation screen, the PC shuts down cold!
Tried to re-install and later to re-format E partition and re-install, but XP JUST WONT INSTALL!
Worse; I now can't even boot Vista anymore as it goes straight to XP and that stupid installation loop starts all over again....
I just need to be able to boot in Vista so that I can then get rid of the other (faulty) partition(s). My problem is: how do I boot in Vista?
Would also like to know why XP wont install...is it because
1) I named the partition "B" and installed to "E"
2) XP 32bit doesnt work on a 64bit machine? (whats the point of 64 bit then, anyway?)
Thanks a lot !

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