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Old June 15th 11, 08:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
mza
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I've Lenovo Ideapad S10. After installation XP (first boot) i see BDS.
Tests show that all is in order (RAM, motherboard etc.). Have You any idea.
P.S.
I haven't recovery part. This is a new "clean" XP installation.
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Old June 15th 11, 08:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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In ,
mza wrote:
I've Lenovo Ideapad S10. After installation XP (first boot) i see BDS.
Tests show that all is in order (RAM, motherboard etc.). Have You any
idea. P.S.
I haven't recovery part. This is a new "clean" XP installation.


Can you tell us the error code, third line down I believe it is? And are
you installing XP from an USB optical drive by chance?

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Old June 15th 11, 10:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Paul
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mza wrote:
I've Lenovo Ideapad S10. After installation XP (first boot) i see BDS.
Tests show that all is in order (RAM, motherboard etc.). Have You any idea.
P.S.
I haven't recovery part. This is a new "clean" XP installation.


Do you see this ?

"0x0000007B: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"

You can look up STOP codes here.

http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

When you install WinXP, sometimes you need to offer a disk driver
at the beginning of the install. You press F6 and offer the driver.
The prompt to press F6 key, will be on the screen early in the
installation process.

In your case, my guess would be, the BIOS has set the hard drive
to AHCI mode, and WinXP doesn't have an AHCI driver. If you
were to change the BIOS setting to IDE (Native or Enhanced mode),
then it is possible the installation will work without a problem.
You might even try changing the BIOS setting now, to IDE, and
see if the computer can boot.

What I can't tell you, is how you offer an F6 driver easily
with a laptop. Modern laptops don't have floppy drives.

One way to do it, is slipstream the driver into a new install
CD you burn yourself, using NLite. The driver must be
of a certain type, in order for NLite to integrate it.

http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part1.html

You can see an option here, to "Integrate drivers". I've never done it,
but that is how you'd make a driver disc to complete your installation.

http://www.nliteos.com/guide/pictures/a6.jpg

When NLite is finished, you end up with an ISO9660 file (.iso). A program
such as IMGBURN can burn a new bootable CD for you, and then you'll boot
the computer with the disc NLite has prepared, and the installation should
go smoothly.

Perhaps a USB floppy drive would work, but I'm not sure about that.
And USB floppy drives are getting hard to find. At least I can
still buy floppy diskettes at the store, but probably not for much
longer.

*******

http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/ot...?categoryid=43

Under "Storage Management" there is an AHCI driver. It is a 481KB download.

In there, you'll find files like

iaahci.cat
iaAHCI.inf
iastor.cat
...
TXTSETUP.OEM

That set of files, is what you'd copy onto a floppy diskette, if installing
WinXP and needing an AHCI driver (because the BIOS is set to AHCI for the
disk). If you can change the BIOS setting, then you might not need the driver.
If the laptop is "fixed" into AHCI mode, then you need the driver. If you
cannot figure out how to offer a floppy with the driver files, then
you can use NLite to integrate that set of files (plus TXTSETUP.OEM)
and then with the new installer disc, you can install and it will work.

Lenovo even repeats what I've said above, in this installer guide.

http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/ot...457514741.html

Paul
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Old June 15th 11, 11:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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On 6/15/2011 4:42 PM, Paul wrote:
What I can't tell you, is how you offer an F6 driver easily
with a laptop. Modern laptops don't have floppy drives.

[...]
Perhaps a USB floppy drive would work, but I'm not sure about that.
And USB floppy drives are getting hard to find. At least I can
still buy floppy diskettes at the store, but probably not for much
longer.


Yes USB floppy drives work just fine (as long as the BIOS can see them).
And they are often found on eBay for about 15 bucks. Some people claim
success with USB flash drives too. Although I never personally seen it
work. I guess it might depend on your BIOS.

And I know of no technical reason why someone couldn't create a flash
drive that appears as an USB floppy drive under Windows. Just maybe
there isn't enough demand to make such a project worthwhile.

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Old June 15th 11, 11:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
VanguardLH[_2_]
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mza wrote:

I've Lenovo Ideapad S10. After installation XP (first boot) i see BDS.


BDS?

http://www.acronymfinder.com/BDS.html

Which one?

Tests show that all is in order (RAM, motherboard etc.). Have You any idea.


Depends on the missing details, like the error message or stop code.

I haven't recovery part. This is a new "clean" XP installation.


How does installing a clean instance of Windows XP alter whether or not
you have another partition (if there is one) with a restore image from
Lenovo? Or does "recovery part" mean something other than a hidden
partition with a restore image/software?

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...GR-4UFUYK.html
(they don't list the S10 model so this may not apply)

The S10 *netbook* was designed for use with Windows 7. How do you know
that there exists the necessary hardware drivers for Windows XP? There
might not be.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/l...pad/index.html

Just because you don't like Windows 7 and want to go back to Windows XP
doesn't mean you can. The hardware in that netbook might not have
drivers available for Windows XP.

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/
Click on "Download Drivers & Software".

Looks like there is some Windows XP drivers there after you drill down
(but then I didn't know the specifics on your particular S10 netbook).
"First boot" doesn't tell anyone just how you performed the clean
install and from where you got all the drivers to support that netbook
hardware.
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Old June 16th 11, 12:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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In ,
Paul wrote:
Do you see this ?

"0x0000007B: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"


Hi Paul! I know XP and anything older than SP2 or Windows 2000 SP4 will
fail to install from an USB optical drive.

Although I had an Alienware M9700 with a dead optical drive and I needed
to use the recovery disc (XP SP2) to dump Windows 7 and to put XP on it.
Oddly enough, the Alienware recovery disc would fail after first boot
from the USB drive. I thought that was odd. So it seemed time to replace
the failed internal optical drive and then try again. And that worked
perfectly.

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Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


 




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