cannot install XP on a separate partition

Hi malinkuore, By the sounds of it your missing the intel Matrix Storage Manager driver which has to go onto to the system when you press F6 at the start of the install. The reason being that SATA and Win XP dont get on. The driver has go go on to a floppy disc, if you dont have an floppy drive, you could download nLite and slipstream it into the install disc. If you dont have the driver, try downloading it from the Intel web site. 

Thanks for the information. I did as you suggested using nLite to slipstream the right drivers in the installation disk, but when I tried the installation of XP after rebooting the same problem occured: Blue screen, a message that the installation cannot proceed not to damage the computer, and some tech info number:

Stop: 0X0000007E (0XC0000005, 0XF748E0BF, 0XF78DA208, 0XF78D9F08)

pci.sys - address F7487000, DateStamp 3b7d855c

Why is it so difficult to simply install Windows XP in a separate partition for a double-boot option?

Hi, Any chance of you getting a hold of an floppy drive, even an external one.

Vista uses a newer Version of NTFS and hides more things.

This kind of nonsense has been going on for a long time.

When you have DOS 6.22 it wont see fat partitions created by WIN9X UNLESS you create the original partition with

DOS 6.22 then install win95 in dual boot mode.

They broke this with win95B and you had to to tricks to keep dual boot functionality.

They Permanently broke this with windows ME.

Hard drives that have been mounted via USB Bridge in vista will show root kits being installed as hidden items that XP adminstrators cannot see

or write to or delete.

Windows XP vs Vista: NTFS

Junctions and symbolic links are two different types of NTFS
objects and are not exactly the same thing.
Junctions are not recognized in Vista and this seems intentional,
but the junction functionality still exists in Vista.

You have to create your NTFS with XP not vista then install XP first then
install vista.  Vista will not install on FAT32.

You can use mklink
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194.aspx
to create soft links (the default), hard links (/h), or junctions (/j).
 The biggest improvement of sym links over junctions is sym links can reference
files OR directories (junctions are directory only)
 and the can reference network shares as well (junctions cannot).
But the bottom line is they are different.

http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

A junction point is a special type of reparse point. Reparse points are redirections in the Windows file system. There are 3 types of reparse points:

1. Symbolic links - can be thought of as a shortcut to a file or folder elsewhere in the file system
2. Junction points - can only point to a folder
3. Mount points - is a folder on a disk that points to an entire disk volume

Junction Link Magic will list all 3 types, not only junction links. With Junction Link Magic, you can also create and remove junction links.

Does it mean that I must use nLite on a computer with XP to create a new installation disk with the drives enclosed, or that I cannot install XP on a Vista computer without floppy? That'd be a big problem, I need XP to use softwares that don't work with Vista. If I cannot do that, I've little use for my new computer.

malinkuore:

Does it mean that I must use nLite on a computer with XP to create a new installation disk with the drives enclosed, or that I cannot install XP on a Vista computer without floppy? That'd be a big problem, I need XP to use softwares that don't work with Vista. If I cannot do that, I've little use for my new computer.

Hi malinkuore, You can use nlite on a Vista system to slipstream the driver into an XP disc, if you do that, then you will not need a floppy disc or drive.

Thanks for the information. Slipstreaming the right drivers in the XP install disk with nLite starts the installation of XP on the separate partition. The problem is that when asked to insert the key number, now it doesn't recognize it, even if it's exactly the same that appears in my Microsoft Certificate of authenticity and original XP installation CD (I have it from my former Dell PC). What to do now?