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    installing XP on a netbook - BSOD

    I've got an acer aspire netbook, I'm trying to install windows xp on it from a USB drive.

    I can get it to boot from the USB fine, but when it starts the installer with the blue screen, it gets to the end of this and I get a BSOD.

    I remember having this BSOD agies ago with my dell PC, and it was to do with the sata drives... so I changed it to "ACHI" mode or something and it fixed the problem. This setting is not in the bios on my netbook. The hard drive is a 16gb flash drive.

    any help appreciated!

    thanks

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    Re: installing XP on a netbook - BSOD

    Error codes tend to help

    If you take a note of the stop code, it will point you in the right direction - rather than simply stating "I have a problem with my netbook". These codes exist for a reason.

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    Re: installing XP on a netbook - BSOD

    I had this problem recently with the latest Intel storage drivers. With the latest ones (which were 9.​​6.​​0.​​1014 back then - no idea if they've been updated since) I got a BSOD. I went back to the version prior to that (8.9.0.1023) and all was fine.

    So if you're slipstreaming Intel mass storage drivers, try an older driver set instead.

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