Longshanks
New Member
Hi
This is my first post but I’m not exactly a novice. My system details:
Dell XPS 420
Bios A03 (1/2/08)
OS Vista 32 bit
Hard Drives
0 Partition WD2500AAJS-75VWAO
1 Hitachi HDT7250Z5VLA380
I am desperate to dual boot as there are some progs which just will not work with Vista. I bought an XP installation CD (with Service Pack 3) on E Bay and tried to follow the dual boot tutorial to install XP. I shrank the Vista partition and created 10 Gb for XP using GParted but I keep getting the Stop 078 Blue screen when I boot from the XP cd.
I’ve done loads of research on the reasons for this and have tried the workarounds. My version of Bios only allows me to switch the SATA settings on and off for the HDD rather than “toggle between AHCI and IDE etc”. I’ve tried this but still get the Stop 078 message.
I then downloaded and ran nLite to create a boot disk for XP but I’m still getting the Stop 078. I followed the process to the letter until the insert driver bit but I’m not sure if I selected the right .inf file. I assume these are the ones in the 1386 sub folder but could do with some advice on this. I’m also struggling to appreciate the process at this point. You use nLite to copy files from the XP installation CD to a folder and then you add driver files from that folder which are needed for the slip streaming etc. Probably me being dumb here.
The prog I need to run on XP is for my 8 year old son so your help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks for your time
Longshanks
This is my first post but I’m not exactly a novice. My system details:
Dell XPS 420
Bios A03 (1/2/08)
OS Vista 32 bit
Hard Drives
0 Partition WD2500AAJS-75VWAO
1 Hitachi HDT7250Z5VLA380
I am desperate to dual boot as there are some progs which just will not work with Vista. I bought an XP installation CD (with Service Pack 3) on E Bay and tried to follow the dual boot tutorial to install XP. I shrank the Vista partition and created 10 Gb for XP using GParted but I keep getting the Stop 078 Blue screen when I boot from the XP cd.
I’ve done loads of research on the reasons for this and have tried the workarounds. My version of Bios only allows me to switch the SATA settings on and off for the HDD rather than “toggle between AHCI and IDE etc”. I’ve tried this but still get the Stop 078 message.
I then downloaded and ran nLite to create a boot disk for XP but I’m still getting the Stop 078. I followed the process to the letter until the insert driver bit but I’m not sure if I selected the right .inf file. I assume these are the ones in the 1386 sub folder but could do with some advice on this. I’m also struggling to appreciate the process at this point. You use nLite to copy files from the XP installation CD to a folder and then you add driver files from that folder which are needed for the slip streaming etc. Probably me being dumb here.
The prog I need to run on XP is for my 8 year old son so your help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks for your time
Longshanks