dual boot advice

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:07:08 wtw at fuse.net wrote:
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> > Is there anyone out there that actually knows how to do this properly?
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> > Thanks
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> Not sure about in a dual booting situation, but I've always just disable the
> AHCI or set it to Legacy mode in the BIOS and have been able to boot XP
> fine.  YMMV.


I do recall an XP problem with partitioning.

I had a disk drive that I partitioned using an external program.  (not the 
problem).  And when I went to install XP, it would tell me "there is not a 
compatible partition on this drive."

I eventually tried to have Windows make its own partition...  which it did 
nicely.  But when going into the install, it would again tell me "there is not 
a compatible partition on this drive."

I finally googled the problem and discovered that if you had more than one 
drive on the machine, this would happen....  so I disconnected the 2nd drive 
and installed XP.

The 'wunderz of Windoz" !!!