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I got a new Dell (XPS 730X HC2) with Vista 64 installed and must downgrade to
XP because of legacy apps that won't work under Vista.
Setup blue screens after the screen for selecting drive - which shows 4
options but shows "no drive" for each before blue screening (0X00...8E,
0XC00...5, 0X8081A799, 0XF6FE2778, 0X00..0)
Under Dell's installation, there is a small FAT16 utility partition marked
primary, followed by a small NTFS partition for Recovery, also marked
primary. There there is C: with an extended partition and 3 logical drives
(C-E; I used the partitioning to create the logical drives from a single C).
(All NTFS). No problem under the installed Vista 64.
I'm not sure if the problem is that the XP setup simply doesn't recognize
the hard drive of the problem is with those two very small partitions located
prior to C:
The drive is a SATA, 10000RPM WD 300GB which, according to WD, is XP
compatible.
XP because of legacy apps that won't work under Vista.
Setup blue screens after the screen for selecting drive - which shows 4
options but shows "no drive" for each before blue screening (0X00...8E,
0XC00...5, 0X8081A799, 0XF6FE2778, 0X00..0)
Under Dell's installation, there is a small FAT16 utility partition marked
primary, followed by a small NTFS partition for Recovery, also marked
primary. There there is C: with an extended partition and 3 logical drives
(C-E; I used the partitioning to create the logical drives from a single C).
(All NTFS). No problem under the installed Vista 64.
I'm not sure if the problem is that the XP setup simply doesn't recognize
the hard drive of the problem is with those two very small partitions located
prior to C:
The drive is a SATA, 10000RPM WD 300GB which, according to WD, is XP
compatible.