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Ketfera

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Jun 29, 2008

15. Jul 2, 2008 2:51 PM

in response to: smax013

Re: Unable to Dual Boot Vista and XP with XP on Secondary Partition of SATA II Drive

Unfortunately, I do not have such an option anywhere in my BIOS.

smax013

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Jan 28, 2007

16. Jul 3, 2008 1:12 AM

in response to: Ketfera

Re: Unable to Dual Boot Vista and XP with XP on Secondary Partition of SATA II Drive

Ketfera wrote:
Unfortunately, I do not have such an option anywhere in my BIOS.

Thought that might be the case.

It would appear that you are either stuck NOT "dual booting" XP unless you either a) get the proper drivers for the ACHI controller and can install them (this assumes that you DO NOT have the proper drivers already) or b) run XP in a virtual machine such as VMWare or Parallels, etc.

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rgreen4

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Oct 22, 2006

17. Jul 3, 2008 1:26 AM

in response to: Ketfera

Re: Unable to Dual Boot Vista and XP with XP on Secondary Partition of SATA II Drive

As Smax has pointed out many manufactured machines, especially laptops have BIOS's with limited options, I call them "crippled" BIOS's.

Here is a document on the problems you are encountering and some workarounds put forth on HP machines. Now you said you have the Alienware drivers so you are ahead of the game, but reading through all the documents and references indicate that is will not be an easy process. As many experiments as I have tried, this is not one I will try. I do have a dual boot desktop, with Vista and XP (for experimenting as Vista is now my preferred OS) installed independently so as to avoid corrupting the boot records.

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rtfire1

753 posts since
Jan 24, 2008

18. Jul 3, 2008 6:01 AM

in response to: Ketfera

Re: Unable to Dual Boot Vista and XP with XP on Secondary Partition of SATA II Drive

I here linux is a nice option when windows xp will not work with your newer pc/laptop.

It sounds like your laptop like mine was not pland to run windows xp due to its not having driver suport. I am able to run it but I have no sounds and other issues where my laptop was made to run vista and beyond

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rgreen4

6,830 posts since
Oct 22, 2006

19. Jul 3, 2008 12:39 PM

in response to: rtfire1

Re: Unable to Dual Boot Vista and XP with XP on Secondary Partition of SATA II Drive

If you can find the specifics of your sound chip, you should be able to find a driver, unless it's real new.

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rtfire1

753 posts since
Jan 24, 2008

20. Jul 3, 2008 12:47 PM

in response to: rgreen4

Re: Unable to Dual Boot Vista and XP with XP on Secondary Partition of SATA II Drive

there not making an xp driver for it right now its came out in oct. I have been told a few that might work but they did not. I am hoping they do come up with xp drivers that way the few games I play that dont work on vista will have sound. I was thinking about getting usb speakers for it but I was told it might still have issues with the sound. but in vista the audio and video in one hdmi cable is nice.

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