dual boot advice

[Tony Alfrey]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:07:08 wtw at fuse.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there anyone out there that actually knows how to do this properly?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>> 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.


Hmmmmm.  My problem may be different;  I pulled off all other drives 
except the one.  But I /did/ partition it in advance because I wanted a 
FAT32 for file transfer.  I may reformat the whole drive as NTFS and try 
again.



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