3 OS in a laptop

curioustechy

Journeyman
Hi friends,
I've been using vista home premium 32 bit on my "64 bit hp pavilion dv6 -1110ax laptop; 4gb ddr2, 320gb, 1gb radeon graphics, amd turionx2" for last one year. Now i desired a change over and removed vista and installed windows7 64bit ultimate and it works well and its good.. I now wanted to install windows xp 32bit and ubuntu 10.10 alongside win7 [i want 32 bit because many of my big and important softwares are 32bit]... i tried to install xp as well as ubuntu..... both failed...i tried 2 different copies of xp [one service pack 2 & another one SP3].. both were earlier tested successful as standalone installations... both failed after a few minutes into the installation.. A screen comes like this

"a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
if this is the first time you have seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. if this screen appears again, follow these steps:
check for viruses on your computer. remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. run chkdsk/f to check for hard drive corruption and then restart your computer.
technical information:
***stop: 0X0000007B (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)"


On the other hand when i tried to install the latest version of ubuntu downloaded from net, [i used the windows installer application which came along with the ubuntu site for installing ubuntu alongside windows].it goes fine till i reach the page which i asks for username and password...there the progress bar goes almost upto 85%. then it stuck there...

Please tell me how to use the 3os in my laptop
 

pauldmps

Banned
Back up your data & then clean format your primary partition. Then divide it into two parts. Install Windows XP into one of the partitions. Then install Windows 7 into another partition.

Download the latest version of Ubuntu & burn it to a dvd or mount it using Deamon tools in XP. Launch the Wubi installer & select the option to install inside Windows. Let the procedure complete & reboot. In the OS selection screen, select Ubuntu & let the installation complete.

You're done!
 
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curioustechy

curioustechy

Journeyman
@pauldmps,
i did as u told & wasted my 3hours simply removing windows 7 and reinstalling it later with all accessories... when i tried to install windows xp after removing 7 and bifurcating primary partition, the process crash ended with the message i posted earlier... give some feasible solution please.
 

Vyom

The Power of x480
Staff member
Admin
So, u r saying u again got a blue screen?
If thats so, then it looks like a hardware problem dude :(
 

motobuntu

Journeyman
It seems you are using SATA HDD and Windows XP is not recognizing it, try to change the SATA setting from the BIOS.

In BIOS you'll get some option like "RAID Auto/AHCI" change it to "RAID Auto/ATA" and then try.

Hope this helps.
 

gameranand

Living to Play
It seems you are using SATA HDD and Windows XP is not recognizing it, try to change the SATA setting from the BIOS.

In BIOS you'll get some option like "RAID Auto/AHCI" change it to "RAID Auto/ATA" and then try.

Hope this helps.
Yeah thats right because I got this problem today itself on my friend's laptop. Then I had to go to BIOS and change the setting of SATA and disable native SATA and the problem was gone. He was also trying to install XP after formatting his computer and his previous OS was 7 too. So this should help you.
 

gameranand

Living to Play
^^ There have to be something like that. You have to find that. Every BIOS I have seen have some kind of different name for that but related to SATA. Post all the options you get in BIOS related to SATA or post some screenshots here.
 
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curioustechy

curioustechy

Journeyman
^^ There have to be something like that. You have to find that. Every BIOS I have seen have some kind of different name for that but related to SATA. Post all the options you get in BIOS related to SATA or post some screenshots here.

There is no word 'SATA' in my entire bios

---------- Post added at 11:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 AM ----------

Take out your CMOS battery and reinsert it. Bios reset might help.

if my pc were a desktop i would easly do what you said.. i know it how to do that... but mine is a laptop and i've never opened it... anyway i'll venture..
 

pauldmps

Banned
See this: Advanced troubleshooting for "Stop 0x0000007B" errors in Windows XP


But most probably the error points to the SATA problem above. Can you post screenshots of each of your BIOS page ?

---------- Post added at 01:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:55 PM ----------

Okay, I got a useful link: An Up to Date Guide to Reinstalling WinXP to DV6000T
 
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gameranand

Living to Play
thetechfreak said:
be carefull..I think taking out the normal battery for couple of hours should help.
No it doesn't. I Tried that on ma friend's Lappy for no use only change is tweaking SATA setting.
 

gameranand

Living to Play
^^ There have to be an option for SATA settings but OP is unable to find it. So updating BIOS won't help because its not going to change the interface eh.
 

choudang

Padawan
if i can remember correctly .. its unders HDD mode ... IDE and ATA .. XP installed on IDE mood, you must install third party SATA driver if you want sata.
 
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curioustechy

curioustechy

Journeyman
see this: advanced troubleshooting for "stop 0x0000007b" errors in windows xp


but most probably the error points to the sata problem above. Can you post screenshots of each of your bios page ?

---------- post added at 01:12 pm ---------- previous post was at 12:55 pm ----------

okay, i got a useful link: an up to date guide to reinstalling winxp to dv6000t

this is how my bios looks like
 
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curioustechy

curioustechy

Journeyman
See this: Advanced troubleshooting for "Stop 0x0000007B" errors in Windows XP


But most probably the error points to the SATA problem above. Can you post screenshots of each of your BIOS page ?

---------- Post added at 01:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:55 PM ----------

Okay, I got a useful link: An Up to Date Guide to Reinstalling WinXP to DV6000T

my bios cont...
 
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curioustechy

curioustechy

Journeyman
See this: Advanced troubleshooting for "Stop 0x0000007B" errors in Windows XP


But most probably the error points to the SATA problem above. Can you post screenshots of each of your BIOS page ?

---------- Post added at 01:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:55 PM ----------

Okay, I got a useful link: An Up to Date Guide to Reinstalling WinXP to DV6000T

my bios last part
 

pauldmps

Banned
It seems that HP has removed this feature from the BIOS.

You need to find the right drivers for your HDD for XP to work.
 
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