Hope somebody can help
I’m trying to install XP on my Vista PC but I can’t get the XP installation to complete.
Vista is installed on the c:\, I’ve bought a second drive to host the XP installation
The PC bots from the XP CD ok, the second drive is seen and the pre-installation files are copied across, but when the PC reboots to continue the installation it fails with a message: A disk read error occurred – press Ctrl-Alt-Del to continue
This suggests that the MBR is corrupt?, EasyBCD allows me to write a new XP MBR, but this assumes a complete XP installation exists on the disk.
I’ve also tried shrinking the Vista install and installing XP on a partition on the first disk but I get the same error.
How do I write a MBR that continues the XP installation?
Any ideas gratefully received
I’m trying to install XP on my Vista PC but I can’t get the XP installation to complete.
Vista is installed on the c:\, I’ve bought a second drive to host the XP installation
The PC bots from the XP CD ok, the second drive is seen and the pre-installation files are copied across, but when the PC reboots to continue the installation it fails with a message: A disk read error occurred – press Ctrl-Alt-Del to continue
This suggests that the MBR is corrupt?, EasyBCD allows me to write a new XP MBR, but this assumes a complete XP installation exists on the disk.
I’ve also tried shrinking the Vista install and installing XP on a partition on the first disk but I get the same error.
How do I write a MBR that continues the XP installation?
Any ideas gratefully received