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I have a brand new hard drive my friend gave to me after he upgraded to an SSD. It originally came from a laptop with Windows 8 installed. I installed the drive in my laptop and installed Windows XP successfully.
However upon boot up it would display the message: Disk read error occured press ctrl+del+alt to restart."
The mystery is I can install Windows 7 on the drive and it would boot up correctly. Somehow Windows XP would not install on this drive.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
However upon boot up it would display the message: Disk read error occured press ctrl+del+alt to restart."
The mystery is I can install Windows 7 on the drive and it would boot up correctly. Somehow Windows XP would not install on this drive.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
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torx11
October 16, 2014 9:12:49 PM
torx11
October 16, 2014 8:10:26 PM
You got to be kidding me. I just did what you said and partitioned the drive to 80 GB for Windows XP installation and it worked.
Thank you so much for your time in helping me with this. As a last question, do you know why I had to set the partitioning to a smaller volume prior to installing Windows XP but not Windows 7? Somehow Windows 7 worked without me me partitioning it to a smaller size.
Thank you so much for your time in helping me with this. As a last question, do you know why I had to set the partitioning to a smaller volume prior to installing Windows XP but not Windows 7? Somehow Windows 7 worked without me me partitioning it to a smaller size.
Your best bet may be using it as an external USB drive - putting it in a USB enclosure....From what I was reading - you have to manually partition the drive to a smaller size (i.e. 100GB to start), then install Windows XP, then all the service packs through SP3, then use a partition manager to extend the partition to all 500GB. It worked for some - others had issues. And of course, Microsoft doesn't support XP.
3rd option may be the best - try installing Ubuntu on it.
3rd option may be the best - try installing Ubuntu on it.
torx11
October 16, 2014 7:31:21 PM
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