Installing XP after Windows 7

John78463 go into the system BIOS and see if there's some options for SATA such as Native SATA or AHCI. If so, disable them and then try to install XP.

I had similar problems with my laptop and that is how I fixed it.

If it is a boot sector virus then formatting HD and installing XP should remove the virus?

Guess it will..

I will try disabling ACHI in BIOS.

If it works I'll make this thread solved when I come back.
Cheers

Tews said:

Google really IS your friend!!

Well done holo88 .
Isn't it funny how we can find these answers when it is someone else's problem. When the problem is our own we fail to see the solution by Googling, ha ha.

I cannot disable AHCI in the BIOS as there is no option for this.

Sod it im going to phone support and get the motherboard make/model.

Sorry about not googling the error code: 99% of the time I do.

If you are rolling back to a different OS because your eval copy is timing out, get the 90 day trial of W7 Enterprise RTM. If you need to run XP for something, slap it in a VM to simplify your system setup. There's very little, if any, reason to run XP natively anymore.

i'm facing the same problem.I'm also getting BSOD while installing XP over 7.