XP on 7

[stumap]

G'day,
Ref. installing XP on 7 to dual boot.
After having read most of the relevant info on various forums, sites and
magazines, I feel I have a rough idea what to do so set about trying,
"trying" becoming the operative.
I have a new Toshiba Satellite Pro C660 notebook pre-installed with 7 Pro
and would like to instal XP Pro.
The attempt to instal by booting from the disc failed after loading the
files, drivers and controllers with an error reporting loading "setup" was
stopped to prevent damage to computer.
0x0000007B(0x578D2524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000).
After trying this a number of times with same result, I tried installing in
7 which resulted in an incompatability error that XP could not be loaded
because it was older than 7.
Error - It appears that Microsoft has installed a blocker to prevent earlier
versions being installed.
Problem event name - ApphelpHardBlock
Problem signature 01 - (8of 1s-4of 1s-4of 1s-4of 1s-12of 1s)
Problem signature 02 - (29971a54-0501-40ed-b688-d44a8e74d92)
O.S. version - 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale - 3081
These two errors appear to be linked.
Anyone any thoughts how to get around this block?
I have already un-installed Norton, I find its too intrusive.
Thanks and cheers,
Stuart M.

 

[fowang]

Why dual boot, seeing you can run the XP vitual machine, well as long as your processor supports virtual tecnology!

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

It is unlikely that XP CD has a driver for your laptops SATA hard disk controller in AHCI mode
Most modern laptops do not have floppy disk drives so you can not add F6 SCSI driver during XP cd bootup
(sometimes bios supports USB floppy drive as drive A

There are guides to installing XP after 7 (normally it should be done the other way round)

You need a product to include correct SATA / AHCI driver into XP CD (too complex to discuss in short message)

for Windows 7 Professional , Ultimate & Enterprise Microsoft give you a free virtual pc + free virtual XP license available for download
This is a much better product than the free Microsoft Virtual pc 2007

regards

Mike Barnes

 

[stumap]

G'day Mike and fowong,
Many thanks for your suggestions.
Vitualisation is considered if all else fails.
I may be stupidly stubborn, or stubbornly stupid, but priority is to find a
way of getting through, under, over, past that which is blocking the XP
installation part way through Setup.
Have tried everyone's suggestions to no avail, yet.
Thanks again and cheers,
stumap