I’m having some issues installing XP on an older laptop - outdated stuff I know but there may be some general fixes that would apply to it
It’s Toshiba Libretto U100 I like and use quite regularly and I’m trying to upgrade it with an SSD. This requires an mSATA to ZIF adapter, and a ZIF to Toshiba 50 pin adapter. (Otherwise you are stuck with CF cards which I fear will be too slow and wear out quickly).
This setup seems to be functioning fine as the drive is detected properly by the partition managers I have tried on the laptop, including the model number and correct capacity.
The Windows XP install goes smoothly up until the point it requires a restart to continue installing. At this point it hangs on a flashing cursor for 30 seconds before giving “A disk read error occurred”.
The recovery console recognises the drive and that there is a Windows XP install on there. The SSD previously had a GPT partition and a UEFI Windows 10 install on there. “Fixmbr” gives a message that the MBR is “non-standard or invalid” and claims to have fixed it but this makes no difference.
Other than deleting the partition (using the Windows installer), creating a new one and formatting it is there anything further I need to do to make sure the MBR is correct on a previously-GPT drive?
Or could it be a problem with the BIOS not liking the IDE-SATA interface and not booting from it even though other programs are picking it up fine?
It’s Toshiba Libretto U100 I like and use quite regularly and I’m trying to upgrade it with an SSD. This requires an mSATA to ZIF adapter, and a ZIF to Toshiba 50 pin adapter. (Otherwise you are stuck with CF cards which I fear will be too slow and wear out quickly).
This setup seems to be functioning fine as the drive is detected properly by the partition managers I have tried on the laptop, including the model number and correct capacity.
The Windows XP install goes smoothly up until the point it requires a restart to continue installing. At this point it hangs on a flashing cursor for 30 seconds before giving “A disk read error occurred”.
The recovery console recognises the drive and that there is a Windows XP install on there. The SSD previously had a GPT partition and a UEFI Windows 10 install on there. “Fixmbr” gives a message that the MBR is “non-standard or invalid” and claims to have fixed it but this makes no difference.
Other than deleting the partition (using the Windows installer), creating a new one and formatting it is there anything further I need to do to make sure the MBR is correct on a previously-GPT drive?
Or could it be a problem with the BIOS not liking the IDE-SATA interface and not booting from it even though other programs are picking it up fine?