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September 18th 09, 03:56 PM
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Installing old Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini?
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Ant typed on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:36:30 -0700: On 9/18/2009 7:08 AM PT, BillW50 typed: Please kindly reread what I said in my original post about slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs.  I read it fine the first time, you said you tried. So what does that mean? You tried and failed or what? It that is what is sounds like to me. As without SP2/3 correctly slipstreamed into the install, it will fail to see files on the CD after the install resets the USB ports. As you had stated, the file is really there on the CD, is it not? Yes, the \i386\asms and its files are there. I already tried installing them (slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs) on regular desktop PCs without any issues. I wonder if XP is just too old for this netbook since installing Windows 7 had no problems? When you tried on a regular desktop PC, you didn't use the USB CD drive, did you? If not, that would make perfect sense. As non-USB drives don't require SP2/3 to install correctly, only USB drives do. Thus why I believe your slipstream for whatever reason didn't work. That was with the external USB CD/DVD drive. How can I verify if slipstream was good or bad? Okay I am convinced that it is a good slipstream if it worked on the desktop with the USB CD/DVD drive. 1) Some BIOS has a toggle to install an OS. Once the operating system is installed, you are supposed to toggle it back. I am not sure what this is supposed to do. Prevent MBR modification or lock the USB at 1.1 speeds or something. 2) Could be bad RAM. If you can swap it with some other I would try this. 3) Could be a bad drive like David already mentioned. 4) Don't think the USB CD/DVD drive or disc is bad. But if this drive has two USB plugs, try plugging them both in. What make and model is this drive anyway? Some can have problems on some netbooks. And no Windows XP should be perfect on this netbook, as long as the system/boot drive has enough room. -- Bill Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195) Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 
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September 18th 09, 04:04 PM
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Installing old Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini?
Ant wrote:
On 9/18/2009 7:15 AM PT, Daave typed: Ant wrote: Hello. I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, discs, etc.), but its installation keeps failing at cdrom0\i386\asms. The error said it cannot find it, but it is there on the CDs (tried slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other brands, other burns from other software and drives, etc.). I have to install from an external CD/DVD drive. I researched on Google, and it seems like this a common problem (error message) but none of their suggestions worked. One interesting suggestion was to press shift-F10 keys when the error occurs so I did that to bring up a command prompt/cmd.exe. From here, to do registry edits with regedit but regedit.exe fails to run (not installed yet I think). I also couldn't find the drive (only found the HDD). It seems like during the blue text installer, the drive exists but after rebooting to GUI installer, it forgot the external USB CD/DVD drive? I cannot make a new partition/drive, to install from another drive on the same HDD) because the netbook only has 7 GB excluding its 100 MB system drive (Dell stuff). I had no problems installing Windows 7 though. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Do you have a SATA hard drive? Do you have the necessary drivers for it? Maybe? I don't much about this netbook (new to it too). I will have to find the hardware datas from Windows 7 installation since that worked. Go to the Dell Web site (support section) and enter your Service Tag number. You will be able to determine what all your components are (including your hard drive). You will be able to determine if there are XP-specific drivers for your hardware components. If they don't exist, I'm afraid you won't be able to run XP on this particular PC. Are you trying to install XP Home or XP Pro? Pro SP2/3. What OS did the Inspiron Mini come with? If it came with XP, simply use the hidden recovery partition. No idea. Hidden recovery only has diagnostics. Hence, 100 MB only. You have no idea what OS this PC came with?! Did you buy it second-hand or get it as a promotional freebie? There should be a Certificate of Authenticity sticker somewhere on it (the bottom, most mikely). That will tell you what OS came with it. I'm guessing Vista. If it came with Vista, you may be out of luck. That is, although any Dell XP installation CD (Home or Pro, but because of your 7GB hard drive limitation, a genuine Dell disk at the SP3 level would be a godsend) could work, the hardware might not support it. Go to Dell's support site and you will learn whether or not there are any XP-specific drivers for your model. Be careful if your Dell XP CD isn't at SP3 and if you plan on slipstreaming because the process is a bit trickier than with regular XP CDs. (Then again, there might be potential licensing issues, too.) Bummer, even with retail XP CDs? No, because a retail CD comes with its own license.
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September 18th 09, 04:10 PM
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On 9/18/2009 7:56 AM PT, BillW50 typed:
In , Ant typed on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:36:30 -0700: On 9/18/2009 7:08 AM PT, BillW50 typed: Please kindly reread what I said in my original post about slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs. I read it fine the first time, you said you tried. So what does that mean? You tried and failed or what? It that is what is sounds like to me. As without SP2/3 correctly slipstreamed into the install, it will fail to see files on the CD after the install resets the USB ports. As you had stated, the file is really there on the CD, is it not? Yes, the \i386\asms and its files are there. I already tried installing them (slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs) on regular desktop PCs without any issues. I wonder if XP is just too old for this netbook since installing Windows 7 had no problems? When you tried on a regular desktop PC, you didn't use the USB CD drive, did you? If not, that would make perfect sense. As non-USB drives don't require SP2/3 to install correctly, only USB drives do. Thus why I believe your slipstream for whatever reason didn't work. That was with the external USB CD/DVD drive. How can I verify if slipstream was good or bad? Okay I am convinced that it is a good slipstream if it worked on the desktop with the USB CD/DVD drive. 1) Some BIOS has a toggle to install an OS. Once the operating system is installed, you are supposed to toggle it back. I am not sure what this is supposed to do. Prevent MBR modification or lock the USB at 1.1 speeds or something. Hmm. Wouldn't that problem occurred much earlier like during XP's text installer screens? 2) Could be bad RAM. If you can swap it with some other I would try this. Hmm. Wouldn't Windows 7 had failed or error'ed? 3) Could be a bad drive like David already mentioned. Could be, but then Windows 7 would had failed too? 4) Don't think the USB CD/DVD drive or disc is bad. But if this drive has two USB plugs, try plugging them both in. What make and model is this drive anyway? Some can have problems on some netbooks. Only one on each one external USB DVD drives. One was a Lenovo DVD burner drive and other was an old HP DVD burner drive. And no Windows XP should be perfect on this netbook, as long as the system/boot drive has enough room. Odd. -- "Number fourteen. The naughty bits of an ant." --Monty Python's Flying Circus /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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September 18th 09, 04:13 PM
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On 9/18/2009 8:04 AM PT, Daave typed:
Go to the Dell Web site (support section) and enter your Service Tag number. You will be able to determine what all your components are (including your hard drive). You will be able to determine if there are XP-specific drivers for your hardware components. If they don't exist, I'm afraid you won't be able to run XP on this particular PC. OK, I will try that later since I do not have the netbook with me. Are you trying to install XP Home or XP Pro? Pro SP2/3. What OS did the Inspiron Mini come with? If it came with XP, simply use the hidden recovery partition. No idea. Hidden recovery only has diagnostics. Hence, 100 MB only. You have no idea what OS this PC came with?! Did you buy it second-hand or get it as a promotional freebie? There should be a Certificate of Authenticity sticker somewhere on it (the bottom, most mikely). That will tell you what OS came with it. I'm guessing Vista. It was from someone else for me to install XP. Oh I did see a Dell authenticity sticker on the bottom of the Dell Mini, but didn't read what OS it said (if it says it). Yeah, probably Vista. If it came with Vista, you may be out of luck. That is, although any Dell XP installation CD (Home or Pro, but because of your 7GB hard drive limitation, a genuine Dell disk at the SP3 level would be a godsend) could work, the hardware might not support it. Go to Dell's support site and you will learn whether or not there are any XP-specific drivers for your model. Be careful if your Dell XP CD isn't at SP3 and if you plan on slipstreaming because the process is a bit trickier than with regular XP CDs. (Then again, there might be potential licensing issues, too.) Bummer, even with retail XP CDs? No, because a retail CD comes with its own license. OK. -- "I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization" --Archy the Cockroach from Don Marquis' "Archy and Mehitabel" book ("Certain Maxims of Archy" poem) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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September 18th 09, 04:33 PM
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Installing old Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini?
Ant wrote:
On 9/18/2009 8:04 AM PT, Daave typed: Go to the Dell Web site (support section) and enter your Service Tag number. You will be able to determine what all your components are (including your hard drive). You will be able to determine if there are XP-specific drivers for your hardware components. If they don't exist, I'm afraid you won't be able to run XP on this particular PC. OK, I will try that later since I do not have the netbook with me. Are you trying to install XP Home or XP Pro? Pro SP2/3. What OS did the Inspiron Mini come with? If it came with XP, simply use the hidden recovery partition. No idea. Hidden recovery only has diagnostics. Hence, 100 MB only. You have no idea what OS this PC came with?! Did you buy it second-hand or get it as a promotional freebie? There should be a Certificate of Authenticity sticker somewhere on it (the bottom, most mikely). That will tell you what OS came with it. I'm guessing Vista. It was from someone else for me to install XP. Oh I did see a Dell authenticity sticker on the bottom of the Dell Mini, but didn't read what OS it said (if it says it). Yeah, probably Vista. I did a little more research. If I'm not mistaken, this Dell probably did come preinstalled with XP (otherwise, it would have been Linux). The COA sticker I'm talking about is Windows, not Dell. If the Dell has a license to run Windows XP, it's a shame you had to waste money on another XP license (when you bought the Retail CD). Since there is no optical drive built-in, I'm sure there are certain issues you need to address first. Since I have no experience with this model, I suggest you look he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/wind...etbook-guides/ and he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/ especially, he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/windows-xp/ What is the complete model name? (I've seen references to 9, 10, 10v, and 12.) If it came with Vista, you may be out of luck. That is, although any Dell XP installation CD (Home or Pro, but because of your 7GB hard drive limitation, a genuine Dell disk at the SP3 level would be a godsend) could work, the hardware might not support it. Go to Dell's support site and you will learn whether or not there are any XP-specific drivers for your model. Be careful if your Dell XP CD isn't at SP3 and if you plan on slipstreaming because the process is a bit trickier than with regular XP CDs. (Then again, there might be potential licensing issues, too.) Bummer, even with retail XP CDs? No, because a retail CD comes with its own license. OK.
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September 18th 09, 04:46 PM
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"Ant" wrote in message ... | On 9/18/2009 7:56 AM PT, BillW50 typed: | | In , | Ant typed on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:36:30 -0700: | On 9/18/2009 7:08 AM PT, BillW50 typed: | | Please kindly reread what I said in my original post about | slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs. | I read it fine the first time, you said you tried. So what does | that mean? You tried and failed or what? It that is what is sounds | like to me. As without SP2/3 correctly slipstreamed into the | install, it will fail to see files on the CD after the install | resets the USB ports. As you had stated, the file is really there | on the CD, is it not? | Yes, the \i386\asms and its files are there. I already tried | installing them (slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs) on regular desktop | PCs without any issues. I wonder if XP is just too old for this | netbook since installing Windows 7 had no problems? | When you tried on a regular desktop PC, you didn't use the USB CD | drive, did you? If not, that would make perfect sense. As non-USB | drives don't require SP2/3 to install correctly, only USB drives do. | Thus why I believe your slipstream for whatever reason didn't work. | That was with the external USB CD/DVD drive. How can I verify if | slipstream was good or bad? | | Okay I am convinced that it is a good slipstream if it worked on the | desktop with the USB CD/DVD drive. | | 1) Some BIOS has a toggle to install an OS. Once the operating system is | installed, you are supposed to toggle it back. I am not sure what this | is supposed to do. Prevent MBR modification or lock the USB at 1.1 | speeds or something. | | Hmm. Wouldn't that problem occurred much earlier like during XP's text | installer screens? | | | 2) Could be bad RAM. If you can swap it with some other I would try | this. | | Hmm. Wouldn't Windows 7 had failed or error'ed? | | | 3) Could be a bad drive like David already mentioned. | | Could be, but then Windows 7 would had failed too? | | | 4) Don't think the USB CD/DVD drive or disc is bad. But if this drive | has two USB plugs, try plugging them both in. What make and model is | this drive anyway? Some can have problems on some netbooks. | | Only one on each one external USB DVD drives. One was a Lenovo DVD | burner drive and other was an old HP DVD burner drive. | | | And no Windows XP should be perfect on this netbook, as long as the | system/boot drive has enough room. | | Odd. | -- | "Number fourteen. The naughty bits of an ant." --Monty Python's Flying | Circus | /\___/\ | / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net | \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT | ( ) or | Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. Does the Dell Mini have a STAT or IDE drive? Do you have the drivers on the USB for SATA? Can you get to the BIOS and reset the basic from SATA to IDE?
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September 18th 09, 06:00 PM
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Use the hidden Recovery partition to reinstall Windows to OOBE state. It
includes all the appropriate drivers. Ant wrote: Yes, 100 MB. Why? Is that a problem? On 9/17/2009 11:07 PM PT, PA Bear [MS MVP] typed: Is there a hidden Recovery partition? paste I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, discs, etc.), but its installation keeps failing at cdrom0\i386\asms. The error said it cannot find it, but it is there on the CDs (tried slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other brands, other burns from other software and drives, etc.). I have to install from an external CD/DVD drive. I researched on Google, and it seems like this a common problem (error message) but none of their suggestions worked. One interesting suggestion was to press shift-F10 keys when the error occurs so I did that to bring up a command prompt/cmd.exe. From here, to do registry edits with regedit but regedit.exe fails to run (not installed yet I think). I also couldn't find the drive (only found the HDD). It seems like during the blue text installer, the drive exists but after rebooting to GUI installer, it forgot the external USB CD/DVD drive? I cannot make a new partition/drive, to install from another drive on the same HDD) because the netbook only has 7 GB excluding its 100 MB system drive (Dell stuff). I had no problems installing Windows 7 though. Any ideas? Thank you in advance.
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September 18th 09, 07:35 PM
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On Sep 17, 10:44*pm, Ant wrote:
Hello. I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron Mini .... I have to install from an external CD/DVD drive. .... I cannot make a new partition/drive, to install from another drive on the same HDD) because the netbook only has 7 GB excluding its 100 MB system drive (Dell stuff). Never say never. It would be the way I would go. A skim down (using nLite) version of XP install media could be as small as 500 MB. Here is now. 1. prepare a bootable USB finger with UBCD4Win installed, plus the following goodies added. - Partition Magic - XP install media copied to a folder on the USB finger 2. Boot up Dell Mini with this bootable UBCD4Win USB gadet 3. Run Partition Magic to create two partitions - 1st partition is 6 GB - 2nd partition is 1 GB 4. Reboot with this bootable UBCD4Win USB finger Now C: drive is 6GB empty; D: drive is 1 GB empty. Copy the XP install media folder from your USB finder to drive D:. 5. On a cmd prompt, run setup on D: drive. 6. If you are lucky enough, XP should be able to install. Because the XP install media is local on the 7GB HDD. Personally, I would not attempt to install XP on a 7GB HDD. Too small. But if you want that way, go ahead.
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September 19th 09, 06:47 AM
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OK, I will try that. How do I get there though?
On 9/18/2009 10:00 AM PT, PA Bear [MS MVP] typed: Use the hidden Recovery partition to reinstall Windows to OOBE state. It includes all the appropriate drivers. -- "Ant colonies are remarkably similar to cities. No one choreographs the action, not even the queen ant, but ant behavior is controlled by swarm logic--put 10,000 dumb ants together, and they become smart. They will calculate the shortest routes to food supplies sniffing out pheromone signals from other ants and Johnson says people do the same thing in cities using low-level interactions of people on the street." --Alex Cukan, "Stories of modern science," United Press International, October 8, 2001 /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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September 19th 09, 06:49 AM
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Installing old Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini?
On 9/18/2009 8:46 AM PT, Richard in AZ typed:
Does the Dell Mini have a STAT or IDE drive? Do you have the drivers on the USB for SATA? Can you get to the BIOS and reset the basic from SATA to IDE? Don't know. Will need to check, but need to check next week. Didn't have time to look at it today.  -- /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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September 19th 09, 06:50 AM
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On 9/18/2009 8:33 AM PT, Daave typed:
I did a little more research. If I'm not mistaken, this Dell probably did come preinstalled with XP (otherwise, it would have been Linux). The COA sticker I'm talking about is Windows, not Dell. If the Dell has a license to run Windows XP, it's a shame you had to waste money on another XP license (when you bought the Retail CD). Actually, I was trying to use my old Windows XP retail CDs that I used in the past. Since there is no optical drive built-in, I'm sure there are certain issues you need to address first. Since I have no experience with this model, I suggest you look he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/wind...etbook-guides/ and he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/ especially, he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/windows-xp/ What is the complete model name? (I've seen references to 9, 10, 10v, and 12.) Good stuff and thanks. -- "The sun's just a big glass, we're all ants, I LOVE YOU." --"Magnified" song by the Failure band /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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September 19th 09, 07:00 AM
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Contact Dell Support or post in the appropriate forum here for assistance:
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/ Ant wrote: OK, I will try that. How do I get there though? On 9/18/2009 10:00 AM PT, PA Bear [MS MVP] typed: Use the hidden Recovery partition to reinstall Windows to OOBE state. It includes all the appropriate drivers.
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September 19th 09, 07:57 AM
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Unnecessary and excessive crossposting removed.
This issue is discussed and pretty routinely addressed in Dell Support, as PA Bear said. However, notwithstanding all that, I'll throw out one tidbit of advice before you go the On my Dell, pressing Ctrl-F11 while booting up brings up that factory restore option (assuming you haven't screwed up the partitions). Keep in mind if you do it though, you will lose everything you've added to the drive since the factory install. Anyways, there is a lot more info and advice on this in the Dell support forums. PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: Contact Dell Support or post in the appropriate forum here for assistance: http://en.community.dell.com/forums/ Ant wrote: OK, I will try that. How do I get there though? On 9/18/2009 10:00 AM PT, PA Bear [MS MVP] typed: Use the hidden Recovery partition to reinstall Windows to OOBE state. It includes all the appropriate drivers.
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September 19th 09, 02:36 PM
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Ant typed on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:10:59 -0700: On 9/18/2009 7:56 AM PT, BillW50 typed: In , Ant typed on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:36:30 -0700: On 9/18/2009 7:08 AM PT, BillW50 typed: Please kindly reread what I said in my original post about slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs. I read it fine the first time, you said you tried. So what does that mean? You tried and failed or what? It that is what is sounds like to me. As without SP2/3 correctly slipstreamed into the install, it will fail to see files on the CD after the install resets the USB ports. As you had stated, the file is really there on the CD, is it not? Yes, the \i386\asms and its files are there. I already tried installing them (slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs) on regular desktop PCs without any issues. I wonder if XP is just too old for this netbook since installing Windows 7 had no problems? When you tried on a regular desktop PC, you didn't use the USB CD drive, did you? If not, that would make perfect sense. As non-USB drives don't require SP2/3 to install correctly, only USB drives do. Thus why I believe your slipstream for whatever reason didn't work. That was with the external USB CD/DVD drive. How can I verify if slipstream was good or bad? Okay I am convinced that it is a good slipstream if it worked on the desktop with the USB CD/DVD drive. 1) Some BIOS has a toggle to install an OS. Once the operating system is installed, you are supposed to toggle it back. I am not sure what this is supposed to do. Prevent MBR modification or lock the USB at 1.1 speeds or something. Hmm. Wouldn't that problem occurred much earlier like during XP's text installer screens? Not necessary. 2) Could be bad RAM. If you can swap it with some other I would try this. Hmm. Wouldn't Windows 7 had failed or error'ed? Well it is my belief that your problem is do to that SSD being a SATA one and not a PATA (aka IDE), as pointed out by Barry in another newsgroup, but to continue... RAM is nothing more than a series of switches. And one being stuck, can be stuck either on or off. And depending on what is placed there, it might be stuck right where it is supposed to be. So no, bad RAM might not show any problems in all cases. 3) Could be a bad drive like David already mentioned. Could be, but then Windows 7 would had failed too? Intermittent problems are tough to find sometimes. 4) Don't think the USB CD/DVD drive or disc is bad. But if this drive has two USB plugs, try plugging them both in. What make and model is this drive anyway? Some can have problems on some netbooks. Only one on each one external USB DVD drives. One was a Lenovo DVD burner drive and other was an old HP DVD burner drive. Okay, I would have felt better if one was tested on both computers. And no Windows XP should be perfect on this netbook, as long as the system/boot drive has enough room. Odd. Nope, that netbook is less than a year old. -- Bill Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195) Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
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September 19th 09, 03:03 PM
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Installing old Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini?
Ant wrote:
On 9/18/2009 8:33 AM PT, Daave typed: I did a little more research. If I'm not mistaken, this Dell probably did come preinstalled with XP (otherwise, it would have been Linux). The COA sticker I'm talking about is Windows, not Dell. If the Dell has a license to run Windows XP, it's a shame you had to waste money on another XP license (when you bought the Retail CD). Actually, I was trying to use my old Windows XP retail CDs that I used in the past. How many do you have? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you do know that the product key associated with that particular CD cannot be used on more than one PC at any given time. Dell XP reinstallation CDs are ubiquitous. In your situation, that's what I would try first (assuming you are able to obtain them). And there is never a need to enter a product key because of their SLP! Since there is no optical drive built-in, I'm sure there are certain issues you need to address first. Since I have no experience with this model, I suggest you look he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/wind...etbook-guides/ and he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/ especially, he http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/windows-xp/ What is the complete model name? (I've seen references to 9, 10, 10v, and 12.) Good stuff and thanks. YW.
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