Why can't I put XP on my Crucial M4?

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I want to install XP but when it loads up the installation files I get a BSOD.

Any ideas?
Is there something I need to disable from the BIOS?
 
You're running in AHCI mode i suppose? XP needs either slipstreamed drivers or drivers loaded from a floppy etc.. (F6 method) to load drivers for a particular controller in AHCI. You need to set to IDE mode in the BIOS. Also, XP does not have TRIM support so its not the ideal OS to be running an SSD on, i'd use a Windows 7 disk to partition the SSD to align it.
 
My Kingston SSDNOW V+ series installed no problem so what is different?

I might have dual boot keeping Win7 on my Crucial and XP on my Kingston.
I do a lot of music recording and my hardware and software just keeps tripping up all the time and I've tried everything to fix it.
It is the fault of the Roland Juno Gi 64 bit driver but it all worked flawlessly in XP.
 
Not answering your question, but to avoid XP making a non-aligned partition I would partition the drive with a utility instead of the XP disc, or connect SSD to a W7 computer and use disk management tool.
 
I don't get this aligning business for XP.
When I first bought my Kingston SSDNow 64 gig it just installed and I had a flawless OP for 2 years!!
What difference does aligning make and how exactly would I do it by booting in to Windows 7 with my Crucial and then setting up my Kingston to install XP on a dual boot?
 
I've still got a problem but this now extends to my Kingston 64 SSD.
I've decided to keep Win7 on my Crucial and have a dual boot with my Kingston with XP on it.

If I attach the Kingston to my AMD Phenom 3.4 system I can load my XP disk and it will find the Kingston and install XP on to it no problem.

HOWEVER, just like my Crucial, if I put it in my new i7 system and load my XP disk I get a BSOD :(

AMD :), Intel :(

Anybody know what might be going on here?

update -
Could it be something to do with AHCI settings?
 
You'll have to load the XP AHCI drivers either by F6 floppy method or make a disc with Nlite with the slipstreamed drivers. I suppose enabling IDE mode in the BIOS would do the trick but then you'll lose performance from the SSDs and its not ideal. What board is it?
 
Justintime said:
You'll have to load the XP AHCI drivers either by F6 floppy method or make a disc with Nlite with the slipstreamed drivers. I suppose enabling IDE mode in the BIOS would do the trick but then you'll lose performance from the SSDs and its not ideal. What board is it?
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Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
16 gig DDR3

Just after the testing of the Seagate I enabled my SATA ports as IDE and that did recognise the Kingston and I've put XP on it.
I suppose I need to start again really by installing the AHCI drivers first.
 
Is there any way to do this without a floppy drive?

To boot into Win7 I have to change the BIOS back to AHCI and to boot into XP I have to put it into IDE :(

I have got the Marvell AHCI drivers installed into XP!
 
I'm getting nowhere because when I go and add the drivers I'm given a choice of about 20 and I can't find anywhere which EXACT controller I've got.
Apparently I have a Marvell 88SE9172 chip but no drivers come up for that!!
 
Why do you have your SSDs on the Marvell controller? You have two native 6Gb/s ports on the board and 4 native 3Gb/s ports. I'm assuming your Kingston is an older SATA 2 SSD? If so then use one of the Intel native 3Gb/s (Black) ports if not then use the White ports (Intel 6Gb/sec) for both your SSDs. You can use both white ports for the SSDs but its rather pointless if the Kingston is a SATA 2 SSD and keeps one free for the future. Forget the grey Marvell ports for anything but spinning disks and opticals imo.
 
Obviously I don't know what I'm on about :D
I've got both my SSDs in the White ports (which I thought was the Marvell).

I see all these when I go to install a driver and to be honest I haven't got a clue which one to install.
However, I did install the Intel(R) 7 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver and it won't boot now so I'll have to start again :(

* 1. OVERVIEW
************************************************************
Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology is designed to provide
functionality for the following Storage Controllers:
RAID Controllers:
- Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7MDH SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller

AHCI Controllers:
- Intel(R) 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) 7 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) 5 Series 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller
 
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