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Hi,

I was trying to install XP on my HP laptop having the Vista Home Premium 64 bit preinstalled. I found out the steps that I need to take through google but my pains don't seem to end there.

When I tried booting the laptop with XP bootable CD, it gave me following shocking error:

"There is no hard disk drive installed on your computer. Setup cannot proceed."

ie XP could not detect the hard disk even though it is there and vista boots normally. One thing however I did many days ago was I partitioned the 220 GB harddisk into two primary partitions of 60 GB each of which first has vista and I want to install XP on second one. There is third partition of 100 GB which is an extended partition further partitioned into two partitions of 60 GB and 40 GB respectively which I use for personal data. I did the partitioning with GParted and haven't faced any problem running Vista or any software on Vista.

I want to install XP so that I can install Visual Studio 2005 and do my work smoothly. Visual Studio is not compatible with Vista.

Can anyone please help me with this?

Thanks really alot in advance!!!
Feb 6 '09 #1
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Studlyami
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First off VS 2005 is compatible with vista, and several of the 2005/Vista issues were addressed in an update. I used 2005 on vista for a while with no problems. As for installing XP on the laptop what kind of a hard drive is in the laptop? You may need to install 3rd party drivers before you are able to install windows XP. What build of XP are you trying to install? What is the model # for your laptop.
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