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can't install windows xp on a drive that has vista on it
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I bought a hp pavillion that has vista home premium and I'm trying to install XP on a separate partition. However, I cannot get the XP installation cd to load: if I boot from it, windows loading crashes, and if I insert the cd from within vista, the 'install windows' option is disabled. There's a microsof kb article at support.microsoft.com/kb/931760 describing my exact problem. And it says that certain bios will cause xp to not load on a disk partitioned by vista, since it's a different partition than xp expects. I changed the registry entries as it suggested, but no result. Also, I emailed them about the hotfix and they said vista home premium has no hotfix for this. My question is, how am I supposed to install XP on this machine, either as a dual boot or to completely remove vista, if I can't even get the XP install cd to load? - |
