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Offline Dichotomy

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xp over vista install crash
« on: February 22, 2011, 05:22:23 PM »
as I go through the steps I get to the part right before it shows me my partition screen and I get the bsod.  Google didn't turn up anything obvious.  Anybody got any ideas. 
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 05:52:18 PM »
If there is nothing on there that you need Dicho, format before installing fella - as your going from vista to xp, suggest that would be a good plan anyway.


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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2011, 05:59:50 PM »
G

It won't let me get that far.  Forays into the net suggest an SP2 or higher.  Sadly don't have one of those laying around. 

Then they start talking that computer gobbledygook and my eyelids get heavy and I fall asleep.
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2011, 06:06:55 PM »
Dicho, grab a copy of ubuntu or something, install that first, then try and install XP.

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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2011, 06:12:42 PM »
No worries G I don't feel like fighting it.  I'm just doing a clean reinstall of *vomit* Vista then I'll upgrade it to 7.  It's a newer box that my folks gave Squid I just have to clean all of the garbage they installed on it (why they do not listen is beyond my ability to comprehend) then I'll take it to 7.  He might as well get used to MSgarbage now. 


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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2011, 07:22:50 PM »
When you go to install 7 you will be able to keep XP if you desire to run a duel boot. You will need a extra partiotn for 7.
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2011, 07:35:58 PM »
installing xp after vista is difficult,not impossible but difficult.

 However if you install xp first then it's relatively easy to install vista for a dual boot system.

 IIRC it has something to do with the ram addressing limit of XP that causes the issue with trying to install xp on a vista machine.When I first got this comp it came with vista and I wanted to install xp but found that it was beyond my abilites but not impossible,there's some programs out there to help with this but I just couldnt be bothered.

 Once you streamline vista and provided you have sufficient ram vista has been a very stable OS as far as I'm concerned.

  Of course YMMV.


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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2011, 07:39:04 PM »
Quit making sense morf and let me continue to blindly hate it okay? :D
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2011, 11:46:35 PM »
If ya got the cash Dicho, I"d suggest ignoring vista completely, and going direct to win 7 (32 bit seems less problematical for ah). I'm running win 7 64 bit, and not had many problems, but others have.

Your choice bud, just a suggestion

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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2011, 06:49:51 AM »
Easy way would be to boot with the disk driver utilities for your hard drive, ie Western Digital for WD drives, etc.

Partition, then load xp or xp and 7 for a dual boot.
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2011, 07:54:00 AM »
Quote from: gpwurzel on February 22, 2011, 11:46:35 PM
If ya got the cash Dicho, I"d suggest ignoring vista completely, and going direct to win 7 (32 bit seems less problematical for ah). I'm running win 7 64 bit, and not had many problems, but others have.

Your choice bud, just a suggestion

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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2011, 08:56:38 AM »
I just got the 3-pack "family version" of 7 and installed it over Vista on 2 systems.  For 130 clams, well worth it.

As to going back to XP, normally helps if you pull all but 1 stick of RAM out until install is complete.
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2011, 09:17:50 AM »
Quote from: Dragon on February 23, 2011, 08:56:38 AM
As to going back to XP, normally helps if you pull all but 1 stick of RAM out until install is complete.

Huh? never heard that one before. Whats the reasoning behind this?
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2011, 10:09:03 AM »
Morfiend touched on it too, but I know I couldn't get my SP1 to install till I removed my extra RAM as was suggested by a forum site somewhere. 

I never really figured out if it was the RAM, the MB, XP SP1, or just what the problem was, but after many failed attempts to install, pulled the RAM and it installed perfectly.  Then did the updates, then installed the additional RAM. 
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Re: xp over vista install crash
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2011, 10:14:00 AM »
Quote from: Dragon on February 23, 2011, 10:09:03 AM
Morfiend touched on it too, but I know I couldn't get my SP1 to install till I removed my extra RAM as was suggested by a forum site somewhere. 

I never really figured out if it was the RAM, the MB, XP SP1, or just what the problem was, but after many failed attempts to install, pulled the RAM and it installed perfectly.  Then did the updates, then installed the additional RAM. 

OK..might have something to do with taking hardware to bare minimums although for XP I don't think you would ever want to go below 512MB.
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