XP Bluescreening on installation

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Hello there,

Currently trying to reinstall XP onto a Toshiba Laptop.

It blue screens whenever it tries to boot from the hard drive itself after going through the first phase of the XP Disk installation.

It gets a little further when setting the HDD SATA MODE to Compatibility Mode, but does still BSOD. I still think it might be related to some silly BIOS setting but have been through them and it's sadly not obvious.

I have tried changing the hard disk but it's the same, so I do not think it is hardware. It was working ok beforehand with Vista, just very slow.

Is there any bootable FULL system hardware checks I can download and run? I tried the Hiren's Boot disk but it doesn't seem to work properly.

Any ideas?

Much appreciated!
 
I'm guessing that you need RAID/AHCI driver for XP installation (press F6 for RAID driver message at beginning of XP install). I'm also guessing that your laptop doesn't have a floppy drive so you will have to slipstream the driver into a WindowsXP install disk using 'nLite' on another machine.

Need to know exactly which model of Toshiba laptop you have. Can take it from there.
 
Thanks so much guys, I bet you are correct. I will find out the exact model tonight.

I however do not have a Windows ISO file to dump on a disk so this could be a bit tricky.
 
The laptop is a "Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D-22E"

I am fairly confident the hardware is fine.

Sadly there are no SATA Controller drivers on the Toshiba website seemingly for this model?

I guess it's back to the drawing board.
 
Your laptop uses the Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Controller
You will need to slipstream this into a Windows XP installation.

The driver can be downloaded from Toshiba's website. It is included in the 'Display Driver' package (97 meg). Extract the file, your driver is called Si3112.sys and is located in the SBDrv\SATA folder.

Download nLite. Install.
Copy the contents of your Windows XP disk into a folder on your hard drive.
Fire-up nLite and point it towords this folder. Click the 'Drivers' button and add the SATA controller driver. I think, at this stage, nLite closes??
Start nLite again, load last session and select create ISO. Once this has completed, burn ISO onto blank CD. You're ready to go. No need to press F6.

Sounds like a hassle, but it's not too bad really. Alternatively, you could install Windows 7.
 
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