October 17, 200916 yr Hello!First of all congratulations for the great work! I have a problem installing Windows XP from stick (Apacer 2 GB), in the text mode when I try to select a partition or another drive I get a compatibility error and I don't know how to fix it! I have 2 hard drives, the first drive have 2 partition and the second one only one partition, and Windows 7 installed. I used WinSetupFromUsb application to create a bootable stick with NTFS file system.
October 17, 200916 yr What types of partitions you have on the first drive? Is there any valuable data on them? Is it the one you want to install Windows onto?Disconnect the other drive and try again. If it fails again please write what you see on the partitioning screen in Text mode.Mind you- XP Setup will replace bootsector on the first drive, which now most likely is Vista/7 type (loading bootmgr rather than ntldr) and if you format the active partition on the first drive you will have to rebuild Windows 7 BCD store as well, which should be also in the active partition of the first drive. To fix bootsector and rebuild BCD store:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...ns-in-Windows-7http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
October 22, 200916 yr Disconnect the second disc, with Windows 7 on it, and try again.Where do you want to install XP on?Were partitions on first disk created under Vista/7?
November 2, 200916 yr Author Again I apologize for the late reply and thank you ilko_t for advices! I mananged to solve the problem but I don't know how exactly! I created another boot stick Micro Cruz with 4GB space using Fat32 option and NTLDR for WinXP option, after that I disconnected my first drive, Hitachi 120GB, with Win7 partition and left the other driver WD Caviar Black 1TB connected. At the first boot screen I didn't have xp compatibility problems so I decided to connect the first drive and worked to, but I can't explain the situation. I didn't installed WinXp yet because I have some work with this OS.LE: If something happens I will post here for future problems. Thank you! Edited November 2, 200916 yr by Spawn705
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