I have partitioned my HD and I have downloaded all the drivers for my notebook from Toshiba and from Intel and slipstreamed them into an XP install disk, as well as the generic Toshiba sATA drivers, but when I load the Windows XP setup I continue to get the "Hard Drive Not Found" error message. I am pretty sure that this has to do with the recovery partition Toshiba puts at the start of the drive. I really don't want to totally wipe this and void my warranty or anything like that. I am wondering how I can get this install to work and am getting very frustrated, any advice would be helpful. Thanks, Jacob.

Installing XP Parallel with Vista
#1
Posted 20 December 2007 - 07:54 PM

I have partitioned my HD and I have downloaded all the drivers for my notebook from Toshiba and from Intel and slipstreamed them into an XP install disk, as well as the generic Toshiba sATA drivers, but when I load the Windows XP setup I continue to get the "Hard Drive Not Found" error message. I am pretty sure that this has to do with the recovery partition Toshiba puts at the start of the drive. I really don't want to totally wipe this and void my warranty or anything like that. I am wondering how I can get this install to work and am getting very frustrated, any advice would be helpful. Thanks, Jacob.
#2
Posted 21 December 2007 - 12:41 PM

-Create two partitions (one for XP one for Vista)
-Install XP on first partition
-Install Vista on second partition (Home premium requires 40gb of which 15gb is allocated to installing the OS)
...Taking into account installing all the correct drivers and software needed on each OS.
#3
Posted 27 December 2007 - 03:57 AM

IWhen dual booting Vista with XP you have to make sure that you install the earlier version of windows first, in this case XP. Ideally what you want to do is the following;
-Create two partitions (one for XP one for Vista)
-Install XP on first partition
-Install Vista on second partition (Home premium requires 40gb of which 15gb is allocated to installing the OS)
...Taking into account installing all the correct drivers and software needed on each OS.
Thanks but that doesn't really answer my question. I have two partitions created. The one that Vista is already on. And the one that I would like to install XP to. There is another one on the laptop as well, I presume- a hidden partition that the recovery tools are installed to. This partition is why Windows XP installer will not recognize the drive, I presume. Any ideas on how to get the XP installer to recognize the drive? Thanks.
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