Blue Screen when installing XP Pro on SATA Drive.

Honestly, I don't have any experience with Dell's. However, I would imagine a Dell restore disk, if created, would have all the necessary software/drivers needed for a successful install.

My Sony recovery partition wasn't even bootable. I'd get a bsod whenever I tried to boot into it. :P
 
As I said in my previous post, those recovery cd's are pretty iffy....sometimes they work other times they give you a big headache and make you want to gouge your eyes out. eh, i'm curious to see what the original posted says.
 
mep916 said:
Honestly, I don't have any experience with Dell's. However, I would imagine a Dell restore disk, if created, would have all the necessary software/drivers needed for a successful install.

My Sony recovery partition wasn't even bootable. I'd get a bsod whenever I tried to boot into it. :P
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1st paragraph: unfortunately they are generic restore cd's, the recovery partition is designed after the build to contain the customized hardware.

2nd paragraph: typically those partitions are not bootable, as said above, they are used in conjunction with the cd to add the necessary info to the install for the hardware.
 
Guppychild said:
1st paragraph: unfortunately they are generic restore cd's, the recovery partition is designed after the build to contain the customized hardware.

2nd paragraph: typically those partitions are not bootable, as said above, they are used in conjunction with the cd to add the necessary info to the install for the hardware.
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Okay. That makes sense. I'm only speaking from my experience with my Sony. Patricv successfully installed his OEM stuff on a new hard drive as well, so, I'm assuming that this is possible with the OP's rig.

Anyway, like you said, we'll wait for his response. :)
 
mep916 said:
Okay. That makes sense. I'm only speaking from my experience with my Sony. Patricv successfully installed his OEM stuff on a new hard drive as well, so, I'm assuming that this is possible with the OP's rig.

Anyway, like you said, we'll wait for his response. :)
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They aren't too terribly different...Companies in the last few years have tried to standardize how they build their OEM cd's to make it easier for the end users to swap them out if they lose them...happens all the time, i've seen people actually trying to sell recovery cd's on craig's list, lol. It just depends on the hardware installed on the rig...eh, we'll see.
 
Slightly off topic but I installed XP on my SATA drive without having to install any extra drivers, just wondering why some people have to and others don't?
 
The drive was a SATA II. The XP disk I had was a few months older and didn't have the required drivers for XP to use the hard drive. I used Nlite to create the disk and inserted the driver from the Dell web site. I then burned the ISO and started the process of "FORMATTING THE HARD DRIVE" which windows does before you can install and then went ahead with the install. This time I was able to fully boot after the install.
 
_simon_ said:
Slightly off topic but I installed XP on my SATA drive without having to install any extra drivers, just wondering why some people have to and others don't?
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Actually that was on topic... :)


Ya that he fixed it! Thanks for posting the fix too!
 
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