installing XP onto VISTA machine

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Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C:) with four partitions on

it.

C: is the one with VISTA

D: recovery

E and F - logical partitions for data storage.

Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions.

However when the installation process come to the screen to select a

partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which

look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it
 
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> Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C:) with four partitions on

> it.

> C: is the one with VISTA

> D: recovery

> E and F - logical partitions for data storage.

> Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions.

> However when the installation process come to the screen to select a

> partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which

> look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it

>

>



The partition to you want install XP MUST be a primary partition, not a

logical one.



Bernd
 
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> The partition to you want install XP MUST be a primary partition, not a

> logical one.



I appreciate that, but the XP set up disk usually allows even to create a

partition. At leats it should see the existing primary partition VISTA is

on, but it sees nothing.
 
On 05/02/2010 11:49 AM, Bernd wrote:

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>

>> Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C:) with four

>> partitions on it.

>> C: is the one with VISTA

>> D: recovery

>> E and F - logical partitions for data storage.

>> Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions.

>> However when the installation process come to the screen to select a

>> partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things

>> which look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive

>> in it

>>

>

> The partition to you want install XP MUST be a primary partition, not a

> logical one.

>

> Bernd





Not true



XP can be installed on any partition



but the boot files must always be on the active primary...



In this case it would more than likely destroy the Win7 boot loader however
 
If you want to avoid problems down the line, I suggest backup

everything you have got on C and D drive (i.e. Vista and recovery

drives) using Acronis or Norton Ghost 15. Then reformat

everything using Windows XP CD and recreate the partition using

the same CD. Then install XP first then Install Vista on D

drive. This way you have got dual boot on your system and at boot

time you will have 30 seconds by default to choose which Os you

want to boot into.



The purpose of the backups is to have something to go back to just

in case it doesn't work first time round. Multiple boot is always

Windows 2000, then XP, then Vista then Windows 7. We have got a

system on which we have Dos 6.22/Windows 3.10, Windows 95,

Windows98/SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 though no

body uses it but we need it just in case we want to test something

out.



Incidentally ignore Twayne because he is a known troll on these

newsgroups and he knows nothing but how to abuse people.



hth





aa wrote:

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> Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C:) with four partitions on

> it.

> C: is the one with VISTA

> D: recovery

> E and F - logical partitions for data storage.

> Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions.

> However when the installation process come to the screen to select a

> partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which

> look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it



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> XP can be installed on any partition

>

> but the boot files must always be on the active primary...

>

Using the standard setup ?



Bernd
 
On 05/02/2010 05:48 PM, Bernd wrote:

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>> XP can be installed on any partition

>>

>> but the boot files must always be on the active primary...

>>

> Using the standard setup ?

>

> Bernd



Yes...

XP can be installed on any partition (not on an external USB drive)



but no matter where it's installed...the boot files...by default

will end up on the active primary.

That's true of all versions of Windows from win95 and up



Installing XP after Vista is a recipe for disaster

though a third party boot manager should be able to handle it

or a Vista repair might do the trick
 
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