Windows XP Pro Installation blue screen

Faisal Tasleem · Jan 18, 2011

Hello,

Well as I bought a laptop '2 years ago' and tried to install "Windows XP" on it; but it didn't work

Why? No Idea; so after trying for months I got tired and left it; but today as I came on this web site and saw some really good 'professionals' here so I thought why not to discuss this problem with you people here??

When I insert the bootable CD; it works quite nice; it loads all the 'drivers' that setup normally does in the beggining. And finaly it says "Windows Setup is Starting UP" and after that BOOM Suddenly black screen and then the blue screen :

At that time; someone suggested me that it's not working because I have a 320GB Hard Disk and it is not compatible with the 'XP'; but I never understood this theory.

Please have a look on this problem and suggest me the best possibility; I am using Windows 7 but would love to Install XP to see how 'my' laptop runs 'xp' and also to run games such as "Need for Speed Shift" which doesn't work on my 'windows 7 64 bit'.

Thanks a lot;

Faisal.

CCT · Jan 18, 2011

If the drive is good and the XP install disk is good then the reason is probably something as outlined here -> Advanced troubleshooting for "Stop 0x0000007B" errors in Windows XP

BCCOMP · Jan 18, 2011

What is the make and model of the laptop?

DT Roberts · Jan 18, 2011

It's the same issue I had and continue to have. The XP installer doesn't come with standard SATA drivers and is therefore incompatible with most newer systems. You'll have to try making a custom installation CD or loading your driver manually to install it: Install Windows XP on SATA without a Floppy (F6) - Softpedia

I myself haven't gotten it to work, but i haven't spent much time on it either. Best of luck to you.

Devin

spunk.funk · Jan 18, 2011

If your HDD is a SATA drive, go into the Setup Bios and set the HDD mode from AHCI to IDE.

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