Vista With XP Dual-Boot Problems


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Hey, I am trying to get a dual-boot going with Windows XP and Beta 1 of Vista. I've got XP installed on my machine, but when I try to install Vista, I run into trouble. Everything goes fine until the Vista setup has to reboot. When it reboots, I run into a blue screen that tells me something like, "A problem has occured and windows has shut down to prevent damage to your computer."

It was some stop error, with STOP followed by some memory address as the error message. It also includes some advice, such as "check for viruses, uninstall any hard drive or hard drive controllers..."

I was trying to install it on a different partition, of course.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

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ive installed vista beta 1 to another hard drive in here and the vista boot loader works perfect.

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I must be doing something wrong, then. Could it be because I am running an AMD 64 and trying to install the 32-bit version? When I tried to install the 64-bit version, it wouldn't pick up my hard drive drivers that I put on a CD, so I tried installing the 32-bit version from Windows and now I run into the above problem.

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Im getting the same problem, RockMancuso. Plus when I select the Legacy OS on the boot menu, it says 'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file.'  :(

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I am getting that same problem too.

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(Illusion456 @ Jul 29 2005, 10:30)

I had the same problem.  What I did was this: Download the Ultra100 Windows Drivers, and extract the WinXP drivers (ultra.cat, ultra.sys, and ultra.inf) and put them on a floppy or burn them to a cdr.  Then boot from your Vista DVD (when I tried to install from XP I'd get the BSOD whenever it would restart the computer, so try booting from DVD instead).  Once you get to the setup screen that asks where you want to install Vista, look for the load driver button and click it.  This is when you'll pop in your floppy or cdr that has the promise drivers on it.  It'll then search for them and once it finds them it'll install them and then show your drives and let you select where to install the OS.

I also tried this way of doing it, and thought I was in business, until I tried to install the driver at the setup screen. I got an error message that the driver could not be installed, even though all of the files were definately on the disc.

Any further help would be greately appreciated.

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OK well I fixed the Hal.dll problem. It seems XP's boot menu appears right after the Vista one. You have to quickly select XP on the second menu aswell, right after you select it on the Vista one.

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Thanks. Any luck on installing Vista?

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I'm currently in an XP/Vista dual-boot setup (different hard drives entirely, not just different partitions), but that is entirely because of audio issues with the Vista side of the street, and most of my data files are on that partition. No Screens O'Death, and it's the XP (not Vista) side that has most of the day-to-day issues.

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As a last resort maybe I will go out and buy a 40 GB hard drive or something, because I have pretty much tried everything and nothing is working. The BSOD comes up every time I try to install from XP, and if I boot to the DVD, it needs drivers for my hard drive, so I put the drivers on a disk and put the disk in and it just tells me that they cannot be installed. Plain and simple. So I have no idea what to do from here on in.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

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I got XP installed one partition and Vista installed on another, and had no problems dual booting the two....

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Same here........

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Yes! I finally got it working by booting to the DVD and installing hard drive drivers (they finally worked).

Thanks for your help and input everyone.

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Yes! I finally got it working by booting to the DVD and installing hard drive drivers (they finally worked).

Thanks for your help and input everyone.

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I was about to come in here and rescue the day but you beat me :(

I had this problem today, installing it to another partition directly from WinXP, and upon reboot it would BSOD. I thought this might be something to do with my SATA drive...

So, determined to install, I booted the ISO up instead and installed it via that. Upon much freezing (if everything locks up, let it be usually... it's just feeling funky) I finally got to the desktop, and the supplimental drivers virtually updated everything :D

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how did you get it to work? i also have 2 sata drives, one with xp on it, the other im wanting to install vista on. i boot from the cd and load the sil3512 drivers, it does its thing and reboots, then it starts loading but bluescreeens shortly after that with the stop 0x0000007b error. i read something on here in a thread that was closed about someone using a tool to change the boot sector or something to vista style, has anyone used this?

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I had Stop error 7B after the first reboot every time. I was loading both SATA drivers in the setup every time. Then I tried to only Load the 1 Driver i needed and it worked perfectly, then i just installed the second SATA driver in windows

For me the 32bit version had a serious bug in explorer and the 64bit version ir running fine. I imagine its just the drivers i was using though.

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I had Stop error 7B  after the first reboot every time. I was loading both SATA drivers in the setup every time. Then I tried to only Load the 1 Driver i needed and it worked perfectly, then i just installed the second SATA driver in windows

For me the 32bit version had a serious bug in explorer and the 64bit version ir running fine. I imagine its just the drivers i was using though.

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when i put in the floppy disk with the sata controller drivers, theres actualy about 20-30 some listed in the window, all of which say the same thing, with only a few being the 3512 the rest are 3112. i only selected one to load, but it still gave the stop error.

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I have the exact same problem with the blue screen when trying to install Vista from Windows XP with a mounted Vista Image in DAEMON. I have tried to install both to my IDE drives and SATA drives but the same thing happens every time. I think the problem is that I have Windows XP on one of my SATA drives and when I install Vista all the installation files are copied to this drive and when the installation process reboots it can't access this drive because no SATA drivers have been installed. As I wan't a dual boot Vista/XP and don't wan't to reinstall my windows xp on one of my IDE drives and my DVD is broken I have no clue as how to proceed :huh: . Is there an option to install SATA drivers in Windows XP, that option seem to be grayed out when I choose one of my SATA drives during the vista setup. Any help is appreciated :) .

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I dual booted XP Pro and Vista on different partitions for a day, I had no problems whatsoeva. Now I am running Vista :)

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