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Foiled! By SCIENCE!
Mar. 16th, 2012 01:03 pmNot long ago I got the bright idea that I wanted to put a Windows XP partition on my laptop. The reasons for this are as boring as they are tedious, but basically they boil down to my wanting to run some software that doesn't play well with my 64-bit copy of Windows 7.
So, I dug through my stash, pulled out my XP install disk, reconfigured the disk to have a 30 GB XP partition, booted up the install disk, and . . . BLUESCREEN!
Um, whut? I'd never had a bluescreen on installation before, and that included dogfooding pre-release versions of Windows. So I went and looked up the stop code, and it turns out I'm a bit too clever for my own good.
My laptop was designed to be run with Vista. This of course means it runs Win7 just fine, but it also means that it includes the latest and greatest in computer technology. Including SATA hard drives.
Guess what technological innovation had either not yet been invented or was not yet in common use when Windows XP was developed and released?
There are workarounds and slipstreams that will allow you to install Windows XP with SATA drivers, but they look like a major pain, and there are enough other newer devices on the laptop that I think I'm going to try something different. I do have VirtualBox and that might be a solution, but I've had problems with stability running VirtualBox. Virtual PC might be an option if it will run with my copy of Windows 7.
On another note Igor the Younger is at his parents' this weekend and his sister will be joining them after school, but things are going to be exciting anyway, as my other son's kids will be here. Maybe I can put them to work as temporary Igors if the sun will stay out long enough for me to put up a temporary antenna.
So, I dug through my stash, pulled out my XP install disk, reconfigured the disk to have a 30 GB XP partition, booted up the install disk, and . . . BLUESCREEN!
Um, whut? I'd never had a bluescreen on installation before, and that included dogfooding pre-release versions of Windows. So I went and looked up the stop code, and it turns out I'm a bit too clever for my own good.
My laptop was designed to be run with Vista. This of course means it runs Win7 just fine, but it also means that it includes the latest and greatest in computer technology. Including SATA hard drives.
Guess what technological innovation had either not yet been invented or was not yet in common use when Windows XP was developed and released?
There are workarounds and slipstreams that will allow you to install Windows XP with SATA drivers, but they look like a major pain, and there are enough other newer devices on the laptop that I think I'm going to try something different. I do have VirtualBox and that might be a solution, but I've had problems with stability running VirtualBox. Virtual PC might be an option if it will run with my copy of Windows 7.
On another note Igor the Younger is at his parents' this weekend and his sister will be joining them after school, but things are going to be exciting anyway, as my other son's kids will be here. Maybe I can put them to work as temporary Igors if the sun will stay out long enough for me to put up a temporary antenna.
