Dual booting Vista and XP.

I've been using Vista Starter, but am wishing to install XP PRO SP3 on a separate partition of my hard drive.

When I get to the blue setup screen and it asks to to install XP on an existing partition, none of my partitions are listed on the menu. Instead, I get something like this in the menu:



When I pressed 'c' to create new partition, nothing happened, and when I pressed "enter", I get the BSOD.

Here is the BSOD Technical Information:


I'm using Compaq Presario C733TU Notebook PC

Any suggestions?

The BSOD shows that the RAM configuration on your computer is not compatible with Windows XP. Do you have more than one RAM modules in your PC?

Also try this for the first error you stated, boot into your BIOS by usually pressing Del at start up >> there is option to enable some SATA performance, now disable it.

Also try this for the first error you stated, boot into your BIOS by usually pressing Del at start up >> there is option to enable some SATA performance, now disable it.

It works!
Thanks Doc

Glad I could help, this always happen to OEM PCs.

I have the same problem, but i can't change this option. In my bios, there is only one option about SATA, but I can only choose between APCI or IDE.
Both don't work. I downloaded an XP from the net, which has something SATA driver, but not working. (bsod)
My notebook is an HP Compaq 615, with original Vista Basic.

Please help me!

thx

I solved it!
With Nlite I loaded an ati sata driver (x86) into the windows xp, and in the BIOS i changed the SATA from APCI to IDE, and like this, its working.