New SSD - Questions

Sounds like the best imaginable upgrade.

can't be a better upgrade than this - a super ddr booster - notice the tweaking knob on the right

Hello again Guru's!,

Ok, for some reason the XP install on the SATA drive crashes when loading. So, I want to reinstall it!

Being that the SSD PCI-e raid card is now set as the 1st. boot in bios, do I just go ahead and load WinXP onto the SATA HDD partition, then when rebooting, do the F8 thing when I want to run it, or will loading XP onto the HDD screw up the booting of the SSD?

Thanks !

Hello BFK and thank-you for your reply!

Yikes... I think you just said "Jimmy... remove that SSD card from the PCI-e slot and then load WinXP onto the HDD"

The SSD has Win7 and is what I will use most! I want XP for a few older programs I still run and are not Win7 compatible.

You also stated that it may be possible with some start-up repairs.

Since I have not removed the XP install on the HDD, possibly you could help me to get that up and running and save me from ripping the computer apart again?

i'm not sure if this is related, or just totally spurious, but when i installed my ssd, i also enabled ahci in bios - since then i tried installing xp (for a cheap laugh), but ran into problem at early stage of install, so abandoned it.

can't remember exact error message, sorry.

what a useless post

Yes, I have tried the repair XP install and after it was done, I could not boot into anything, Win7 or XP.

Had to install everything onto the SSD again... been an eventful week :)

I was thinking about what BFK wrote and I am wondering if I can somehow disable the SSD, then load XP on the HDD. Possibly this would save having to rip the card out...

mickey megabyte said:

i'm not sure if this is related, or just totally spurious, but when i installed my ssd, i also enabled ahci in bios - since then i tried installing xp (for a cheap laugh), but ran into problem at early stage of install, so abandoned it.

can't remember exact error message, sorry.

what a useless post

With XP you need to load the AHCI drivers at the start of the install. Otherwise it will always fail. XP, any SP (to my knowledge) does not include any AHCI drivers so if they aren't loaded at the beginning of the install (at the prompt to load 3rd party SCSI drivers hit F6 [I think]) the install always fail.

Back on topic for the OP.

This is probably why your current install on your old HDD gave you a BSOD when you tried to boot to it. You probably enabled AHCI in the BIOS when you installed the SSD. And when you did a fresh install of 7 it loaded the correct drivers, as they are included in 7.

But have you tried to boot to your old install of 7? If you did how did that go.
Actually I think 7 doesn't have a problem dealing with the BIOS set to AHCI even if you haven't made the proper registry edit to enable AHCI in the OS.

I know I had AHCI enabled in the BIOS then loaded a older 7 image on my HDD that I had not made the registry edit in and it booted right up, no problem.