Posted: 11/7/2009 11:03:14 PM EDT
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I'm looking for some late night advice so I figure I'll ask this here. I'm a macfag so this whole PC thing is not my specialty.
The machine is a quad intel on a gigabyte board with 3 physical SATA drives with OS X running on one drive. The build is detailed here Here is my question as I posted at the insanely mac forum thread on this build. •••I am trying to set up a dual boot and don't know enough about pc's to figure it out. I have os x running great as stated earlier in this thread and have 2 additional drives which are each split into partitions. The drive I want to install XP onto is SATA and has two empty partitions except for a couple empty folders as it's a scratch disk for os x. This drive is formatted in GUID partition table and is ok to reformat. When I put the CD in for XP SP2 it goes through the startup screens then stops at the error.. "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer." then says something about not reconizing the drives or they could be corrupt and suggests running chkdsk /f Any suggestion how to get past this? How do I run CHKDSK without any os or dos installed? Will the windows installer allow me to select one of the partitions on one of the 3 drives to install on or allow me to reformat that drive? What partition scheme would I use? Fat32?? One XP is installed how do I choose which disk to boot to (OS X or XP)? when I enter disk setup in the bios it only offers HDD and not a list of partitions and drives. I looked in the dual boot thread and the sticky but it goes back to 2005 and was bound to cause more harm than good. Any advice for dual booting the lifehacker build. |
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here is the error code I get
*** STOP: OX 0000007B (OXF78D2524, OXC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000) eta: and some info from google "My suspicion would be the SATA controller driver, I am assumming SATA as you do not furnish much info. You may have to create a Slipstreamed XP CD with the OEM Manufacturers Drivers.." i don't have a floppy so I'll have to looking onto preparing sliptream disk maybe. |
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well that didn't work, I get the same error. I formatted the drive single partition, FAT32 using master boot record scheme and it still froze with the error message. I also unhooked all the other drives.
I'm thinking it's a SATA issue from what I've read. anyone else? ETA: I have my drives set on ACHI at that helps. |
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Newby to these boards here but not in general. I hope posting a link is not prohibited but check here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_september10.mspx It's a great write-up on multi-booting. Good luck, Mike |
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Newby to these boards here but not in general. I hope posting a link is not prohibited but check here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_september10.mspx It's a great write-up on multi-booting. Good luck, Mike I'll check it now, thanks for your 1st post, hope I wasn't too rough 
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Quoted: well that didn't work, I get the same error. I formatted the drive single partition, FAT32 using master boot record scheme and it still froze with the error message. I also unhooked all the other drives. I'm thinking it's a SATA issue from what I've read. anyone else? ETA: I have my drives set on ACHI at that helps. I think you'll want to do NTFS formatting. |
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No, you can't do NTFS you have to do FAT32.
The NTFS security protocols interfere with a multi-boot scheme. It looks like you will need a 3rd party product lie the article suggests. Mike P.S. It was my pleasure to use my 1st post for this and I have thousands on other forums. Now I just need to figure out how to subscribe to a thread. 
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Quoted: No, you can't do NTFS you have to do FAT32. The NTFS security protocols interfere with a multi-boot scheme. It looks like you will need a 3rd party product lie the article suggests. Mike P.S. It was my pleasure to use my 1st post for this and I have thousands on other forums. Now I just need to figure out how to subscribe to a thread. sorry, you're right on that one. /brain fart.  you've got to be a team member to subscribe to threads. I'd say it's well worth the $24 |