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? best newsgroup for XP?
Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting
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On 3/21/2018 11:33 AM, news://news.aioe.org wrote:
Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting with Lubuntu Gparted Despite your not saying what the problem is ... get a copy of pzapper to remove any and all partitions from the hard drive. Then run Fdisk to establish a new partition, format and install XP. This is all pretty basic stuff. |
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Yes, I know this is basic stuff.
So I originally had Win10 running on a client's Compaq laptop. It was a bit top heavy(and very buggy) so I installed Ubuntu. Clean and VERY fast. but the client does not like it ( I have used gparted to remove VISTA and Win10 to reload XP on various machines, so I deleted the partition using gparted and the original WinXP disc will NOT install. It does boot and starts copying files... but then the DBSOD!!! I have now tried various different levels of format, including Remake Boot Sector... but still the same Dreaded Blue Screen of Death. There are minimal options in BIOS... and the install disc installs perfectly well on another machine? What am I missing?? "." wrote in message news On 3/21/2018 11:33 AM, news://news.aioe.org wrote: Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting with Lubuntu Gparted Despite your not saying what the problem is ... get a copy of pzapper to remove any and all partitions from the hard drive. Then run Fdisk to establish a new partition, format and install XP. This is all pretty basic stuff. |
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On 3/21/2018 2:44 PM, news://news.aioe.org wrote:
Yes, I know this is basic stuff. So I originally had Win10 running on a client's Compaq laptop. It was a bit top heavy(and very buggy) so I installed Ubuntu. Clean and VERY fast. but the client does not like it ( I have used gparted to remove VISTA and Win10 to reload XP on various machines, so I deleted the partition using gparted and the original WinXP disc will NOT install. It does boot and starts copying files... but then the DBSOD!!! I have now tried various different levels of format, including Remake Boot Sector... but still the same Dreaded Blue Screen of Death. There are minimal options in BIOS... and the install disc installs perfectly well on another machine? What am I missing?? Bottom posting? ;^) Per the progress screen, what is it working on installing when it crashes? That 'could' be a hint. The install disk doesn't like a hardware item, perhaps even the CD drive (especially if it's a dub), or XP may not have necessary drivers for possibly newer or otherwise incompatible hardware. Throw in a known good HD for a test. "." wrote in message news On 3/21/2018 11:33 AM, news://news.aioe.org wrote: Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting with Lubuntu Gparted Despite your not saying what the problem is ... get a copy of pzapper to remove any and all partitions from the hard drive. Then run Fdisk to establish a new partition, format and install XP. This is all pretty basic stuff. |
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news://news.aioe.org wrote:
Yes, I know this is basic stuff. So I originally had Win10 running on a client's Compaq laptop. It was a bit top heavy(and very buggy) so I installed Ubuntu. Clean and VERY fast. but the client does not like it ( I have used gparted to remove VISTA and Win10 to reload XP on various machines, so I deleted the partition using gparted and the original WinXP disc will NOT install. It does boot and starts copying files... but then the DBSOD!!! I have now tried various different levels of format, including Remake Boot Sector... but still the same Dreaded Blue Screen of Death. There are minimal options in BIOS... and the install disc installs perfectly well on another machine? What am I missing?? The nice thing is, the Command Prompt "diskpart" program has a disk cleaner. Various installer CDs or DVDs, have a repair or recovery option which gives access to Command Prompt. And you use commands like this from the [administrator] Command Prompt. diskpart list disk select disk 0 list partition # This is just a step in verifying you have # selected the right disk drive, and haven't # made a stupid mistake. If you clean the wrong # disk *you will be sorry*. Trust me. clean all === zeros every sector, MBR included === can take a couple hours exit The thing is, the WinXP installer disc, might not like it if it sees a GPT protective MBR setup. The partition table has 0xEE and a size that occupies the entire disc, and this GPT design is meant to "thwart" attempts by non-GPT OSes to do stuff from a partitioning perspective. My experience is, zeroing the MBR is not enough. You can remove the 0xEE partition and replace the partition type with 0x00. But some utilities, the scanner types, will "detect" GPT is present, and start insisting that GPT-type stuff be done to the drive. To stop these incidents from happening (i.e. don't leave the "smell" of GPT on the drive, because it will hamper future data recovery efforts on the drive), for a home user, a simple "clean all", then sit back for two hours, and your drive will be "factory fresh" and "without history". After a "clean all", TestDisk will no longer spot phantom partitions. This makes data recovery easier later. Now you can shove in that WinXP CD and install. If your BIOS hardware setting is set to AHCI on the SATA port, WinXP doesn't have a driver for that. You can switch to Native or Compatible IDE emulation, then do the install. Or, you can hunt down the correct txtsetup.oem flavor of AHCI driver for your Intel Southbridge. Note that Intel is no longer generous with this flavor of support. Putting WinXP on new hardware, is getting more difficult now. At one time, it was a breeze (back when Intel cared). Paul |
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yeh, thanks Paul.
You have been the closest with a solution so far!! I can tell you are probably over 40 )) The issue was as follows: Compaq Presarios use a proprietary SATA adaptor. XP did not ship with this driver included on the install CD... hence the BSOD. It could not see the drive. I have managed to find a 'slipstreamed' XP install ISO file on the net that has had these drivers added. I burned the ISO to DVD, powered up and it installed FIRSZT SHOT!! Thanks for your time Regards Peter Butler Johannesburg, SA "Paul" wrote in message news news://news.aioe.org wrote: Yes, I know this is basic stuff. So I originally had Win10 running on a client's Compaq laptop. It was a bit top heavy(and very buggy) so I installed Ubuntu. Clean and VERY fast. but the client does not like it ( I have used gparted to remove VISTA and Win10 to reload XP on various machines, so I deleted the partition using gparted and the original WinXP disc will NOT install. It does boot and starts copying files... but then the DBSOD!!! I have now tried various different levels of format, including Remake Boot Sector... but still the same Dreaded Blue Screen of Death. There are minimal options in BIOS... and the install disc installs perfectly well on another machine? What am I missing?? The nice thing is, the Command Prompt "diskpart" program has a disk cleaner. Various installer CDs or DVDs, have a repair or recovery option which gives access to Command Prompt. And you use commands like this from the [administrator] Command Prompt. diskpart list disk select disk 0 list partition # This is just a step in verifying you have # selected the right disk drive, and haven't # made a stupid mistake. If you clean the wrong # disk *you will be sorry*. Trust me. clean all === zeros every sector, MBR included === can take a couple hours exit The thing is, the WinXP installer disc, might not like it if it sees a GPT protective MBR setup. The partition table has 0xEE and a size that occupies the entire disc, and this GPT design is meant to "thwart" attempts by non-GPT OSes to do stuff from a partitioning perspective. My experience is, zeroing the MBR is not enough. You can remove the 0xEE partition and replace the partition type with 0x00. But some utilities, the scanner types, will "detect" GPT is present, and start insisting that GPT-type stuff be done to the drive. To stop these incidents from happening (i.e. don't leave the "smell" of GPT on the drive, because it will hamper future data recovery efforts on the drive), for a home user, a simple "clean all", then sit back for two hours, and your drive will be "factory fresh" and "without history". After a "clean all", TestDisk will no longer spot phantom partitions. This makes data recovery easier later. Now you can shove in that WinXP CD and install. If your BIOS hardware setting is set to AHCI on the SATA port, WinXP doesn't have a driver for that. You can switch to Native or Compatible IDE emulation, then do the install. Or, you can hunt down the correct txtsetup.oem flavor of AHCI driver for your Intel Southbridge. Note that Intel is no longer generous with this flavor of support. Putting WinXP on new hardware, is getting more difficult now. At one time, it was a breeze (back when Intel cared). Paul |
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news://news.aioe.org wrote:
yeh, thanks Paul. You have been the closest with a solution so far!! I can tell you are probably over 40 )) The issue was as follows: Compaq Presarios use a proprietary SATA adaptor. XP did not ship with this driver included on the install CD... hence the BSOD. It could not see the drive. I have managed to find a 'slipstreamed' XP install ISO file on the net that has had these drivers added. I burned the ISO to DVD, powered up and it installed FIRSZT SHOT!! Thanks for your time Regards Peter Butler Johannesburg, SA I'm past my "best before date", yes. And you're way ahead on me, by finding your solution that quickly. Paul |
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news://news.aioe.org wrote:
Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting with Lubuntu Gparted microsoft.public.windowsxp.general From Lubuntu: sudo apt install disktype disktype /dev/sda | tee out.txt Then present the contents of "out.txt" text strings, in your posting to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general for suggestions. What that does, is scan the disk for information, and tell us what partitions you might or might not have created. Paul |
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On 3/21/2018 2:24 PM, Paul wrote:
news://news.aioe.org wrote: Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting with Lubuntu Gparted microsoft.public.windowsxp.general From Lubuntu: ֲ*ֲ* sudo apt install disktype ֲ*ֲ* disktype /dev/sda | tee out.txt Then present the contents of "out.txt" text strings, in your posting to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general for suggestions. What that does, is scan the disk for information, and tell us what partitions you might or might not have created. ֲ*ֲ* Paul MS Windows sometimes has a very hard time dealing with unsupported disk formats, which is what I think is a likely cause of whatever problem he was having with attempting to install XP. |
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I have used this exact same procedure before to KILL VISTA and reload with
XP. Same installation disc... without any issues... "." wrote in message news On 3/21/2018 2:24 PM, Paul wrote: news://news.aioe.org wrote: Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting with Lubuntu Gparted microsoft.public.windowsxp.general From Lubuntu: sudo apt install disktype disktype /dev/sda | tee out.txt Then present the contents of "out.txt" text strings, in your posting to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general for suggestions. What that does, is scan the disk for information, and tell us what partitions you might or might not have created. Paul MS Windows sometimes has a very hard time dealing with unsupported disk formats, which is what I think is a likely cause of whatever problem he was having with attempting to install XP. |
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