niche25 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I recently decided to go back to windows after using iAtkos OSx86 Leopard for a few weeks. I formated my hard drive back to NTFS and tried installing Windows XP Pro but the install does not see the hard drive and fails to continue. I tried 5 different versions of Windows (XP home, Pro, Vista, 2000, me) but all fail. The weird thing is I can install Ubuntu just fine as well as reinstall Leopard but I really need help getting this laptop back to Windows XP Pro. Please help me. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scriptx Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Did you try deleting your partitions and then creating new ones? A straight format may not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajindia Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Please delete partition and re do it from xp Cd. Also make sure "AHCI"mode is off in bios.Most controllers donot have inbuilt xp driver. set drive to legacy ide mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niche25 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 I partitioned it many times and I dont have any options in my BIOS. I am wondering if this has something to do with the Darwin_boot stuff that was installed. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtomek Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 It's probably not finding your SATA controller. Are you using the CD that came with your computer? Most don't have the correct driver included Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnVmyZ Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I've seen this before. Boot into the iATKOS dvd and format your drive into FAT32. Make sure on the partition tab -> options is set for MBR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niche25 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 "I've seen this before. Boot into the iATKOS dvd and format your drive into FAT32. Make sure on the partition tab -> options is set for MBR" I tried this too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassler Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Have you set the partition as active? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niche25 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Yes the partition was set active. I just tried partitioning & formating it on my main computer as a secondary drive and everything went fine (and set as active). put the drive back in my laptop and run the installer but it still can see the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The iMan Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 why don't you try another disk or if you have a serial and another computer download a regular disk for it and then type your license in EDIT: oops i didn't read the first post thoroughly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassler Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Can you load up Diskpart on the laptop itself? Perhaps with the Vista DVD? Try and set the disk active through that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niche25 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 No I cant get the to the partition/format part of any of the windows installs, doesnt see the HDD. I also tried re-partitioning & formating through iAtkos and again no luck. This is so weird because again Linux installs just fine and so does Leopard. any tools I can download and boot with to fix or report whats going on here? BTW thank you guys for all the fast responses so far! Can you load up Diskpart on the laptop itself? Perhaps with the Vista DVD? Try and set the disk active through that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The iMan Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 try to find hirens boot cd u find it at the usual places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Boot the Vista CD, don't click on the option to Install. Instead, click on the option to repair problems. You'll be asked to select a Windows installation (the list will be blank - don't worry, just click next), and then to choose a tool to run. Run the Command Prompt. Invoke Diskpart by typing diskpart at the command prompt. You'll now have a DISKPART> prompt. Type list disk. Select the disk to work with to give it focus, such as: DISKPART> select disk 1 Convert the disk, as follows: To convert a disk from GPT (GUID) to MBR, type convert mbr at the command prompt. That should fix you problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brodie101 Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I recently decided to go back to windows after using iAtkos OSx86 Leopard for a few weeks. I formated my hard drive back to NTFS and tried installing Windows XP Pro but the install does not see the hard drive and fails to continue. I tried 5 different versions of Windows (XP home, Pro, Vista, 2000, me) but all fail. The weird thing is I can install Ubuntu just fine as well as reinstall Leopard but I really need help getting this laptop back to Windows XP Pro. Please help me. Thank you! My advice to you is boot ubuntu live cd, use gparted or gnome partition edit as its called on the live cd and remove all partitions but DONT format them, just remove them and then boot windows install, windows install should see hard drive and let you format from within the install, my advice would be to do the long format though, as you've had different partition types on the disk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civokcal Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hey this worked for me, assuming you have an alternate pc with internet and the ability to burn a CD or has USB ports download DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) HERE burn it to cd or copy to Thumb drive boot with cd/thumbdrive in (make sure boot order allows these to be before HD in bios) its very self explanatory, wipes your HD completely, my advice is hit enter upon it starting up and then if you look at the bottom of your screen after it will give you some parameters you can change i set everything to as little of a "nuke" as possible (1 pass, no verification, ect.) in about 10-20 mins when DBAN has finished, pop your windows cd in and rock'n'roll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quactaur Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Just use your OSX86 instal CD. When it loads up, goto disk utility and create a single MS DOS partition. Click on options and set it to MBR instead of GUID. Let it work then use your windows cd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.SubZero Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 If you have a GUID partition setup Windows can't use it for the OS. I verified this trying to put Vista x64 on a previous Leopard install. Of course MS only goes half-way.. Vista specifically *tells* me that it' a GPT partition setup and Vista can't install the OS to it.. then it.. just stops. Why the heck doesn't it offer to re-partition the drive then!??! I had to boot Leo4All and re-partition with MBR before Vista would install. What a pain. (how did you get GUID on iATKOS anyway? I didn't think his boot loader supported it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackeron Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 I recently decided to go back to windows after using iAtkos OSx86 Leopard for a few weeks. I formated my hard drive back to NTFS and tried installing Windows XP Pro but the install does not see the hard drive and fails to continue. I tried 5 different versions of Windows (XP home, Pro, Vista, 2000, me) but all fail. The weird thing is I can install Ubuntu just fine as well as reinstall Leopard but I really need help getting this laptop back to Windows XP Pro. Please help me. Thank you! Sorry to be unhelpful but everyone should be so lucky -- Me, I'm just getting a blue screen of death during installation - I think it's because I have 4gb of ram and XP doesn't like that - guess I'm lucky too! - sticking with leopard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan1993 Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 how and where can i choose between XP and OSX? when i had XP and vista, i had the choice between vistan and XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rorydaredking Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 have you tried booting the leopard install disk, going to terminaland typing fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 if 0 is the first (or only) hdd on your machine flag 1 with 1 or 2 or whatever being the partition you want to install to quit y reboot it will reboot, now trying installing vista to that partition all this is doing is making it active... has fixed all my issues in 5 minutes that would before have taken a day of reinstalling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDynamo Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Change the settings in BIOS - the ACPI setting (to disabled) If installing XP - reboot use gparted and set active? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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