Path: news.ccsf.jp!news-haigo!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John Williamson Newsgroups: japan.comp.toshiba Subject: Re: Unpartition Drive Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:39:49 +0000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <6ssfdvF7v9uuU1@mid.individual.net> References: <6rabv8Fa34kU1@mid.individual.net> <6ssb7jF80g0aU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Ko7Mqh1UmRy/aMw2A0sJ6AbGbJIIvQTHURCTS5Jl+34hSZ3eDx Cancel-Lock: sha1:cLfsM0+DGCTQw1FgUTHfzfwaeWE= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: Xref: news.ccsf.jp japan.comp.toshiba:1611 Uwe St?ckel wrote: > John Williamson wrote: > > [...] >> Close the computer down, remove the UBCD, and reboot from your XP >> install media. It should then install XP, asking if you want to keep >> your existing partition layout. >> >> That's what happened when I did it, anyway.... >> >> If you can get a Bart PE CD, then a lot of this can be done using a GUI. >> I've not used this method, though, and you'll need a working XP computer >> to make the Bart PE CD-R. > > When I tried to install XP without removing all data from the Disk I > had the impression that the XP-Installdisk did not have any driver for > the internal hard drives (both the same 160 GB size). > Or was that just because something on the drives inhibited the > installation of other software? RAID setups can cause problems as they need a driver at install time, but Vista makes the MBR area unwriteable for XP. The XP formatting tools won't touch it until the Vista bootloader has been cleared. It may also be that as the machine is shipped with Vista, there are no XP drivers for the chipset used, although a standard SATA or IDE HD should be recognised anyway. -- Tciao for Now! JOhn.