I have a pavilion m9000t has vista i have 2 sata 500 gb hard drives.I want to install xp but it keeps saying your compouter was shut down to prevent damage so what do i need to do.Do I have to go into bios and change soomething? I changed it to boot from disc.I have all the xp drivers so i really want to figure this out.Do i have to disable something?
you need to format your drives...thats what i did; once it booted from disc i selected to format the drives. after that, installation went smooth...be advised tho....formatting erases all your data so backup files you want from pc first! then of course once xp installed you have to install your drivers n stuff...
I tried that its not easy like xp vista and my sata drive I think i need some type of software to delete my vista or disable my hard drive
Shiloh72. You need to change the sata drive to ide in the bios to install xp and wipe vista. Thats how I did mine anyway and it worked a treat.
ok it didnt do anything both my hdd drives are sata my board does not have ide at all so what do i do?
have you tried 'deleting' the drive when you are in the windows xp install menu? The space then shows up as unpartitioned space...another suggestion...why not dual boot?
First step is to google the motherboard and bios version to make double sure it isn't a "vista locked" piece of hardware.. If it is you will need to reflash the bios first before you can install xp (or anything else for that matter) XD
You need a boot cd.. ubcd or techies toolkit or hirons with partitioning tools.. run the partition tools.. if one gas gparted the more the better.. and look-see if there is a system partition. If there is you need to take care not to delete it.. it will contain bios setting routines and stuff. report back with what you find.. but don't change anything yet
I have partition my drive and still nothing i even disable my hard drives and i still get your computer was shut down to prevent damage blsaah blah and so on I have 2 sata hard drives some people tell me to usea ide one well i cant do that cause my board does not have ide at all.Im thinking of just saling this crap and go get one i know i can put xp on.Well hope someone can figure this out cause i cant i tried everything possible.
Well i did step by step to dual booting and still nothing can anyone help me and tel what im doing wrong here i got the drive to say vista then the other for xp then when i put the disc it reads til it say windows it starting then it says windwos was shut down to prevent damage to your computer why does it keep saying that?
SDempsey Member 11. September 2008 @ 11:33 Link to this message Report an offensive post Shiloh72. You need to change the sata drive to ide in the bios to install xp and wipe vista HOW DO I DO THAT?
^^^??? I have installed xp on sata only hardware without any problems. Suppose it depends a lot if there is a hardware driver for the sata ports on the mobo or if you need to install it from a floppy or something before you can proceed. My guess is those kinds of things are what is usually on the hidden system partition. HP/Compaq have always been bastard machines to work with.. cockeyed chipsets and funky bios and drivers... http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01274160&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3629325 If you want to sell that lump of vista junk it would make a nice linux machine.. I'll give you £5 for it as scrap Or you could install linux/run a live cd and see just what drivers you are going to need to get it running again. But if people don't want to listen to advice then....................
When I installed XP on a SATA drive I hade to select third party raid drivers when the XP cd booted up and installed the drivers for the SATA drive from the motherboard CD. Once they were installed everything went great.
