I reformatted the hard drive due to pc not wanting to bootup I replaced win xp with disc but now i get a blue screen and process initialisation failed
You may not be able to load the XP disks - because the unit was manufactured after XP and drivers/controllers may not be available. You can try to boot in SAFE MODE, but finding the drivers that were never written for that model could be a 'needle in a haystack' to locate that works to display or address items in the main system.
SOURCE: acer 5050 blue screen
Problem with hdd or ram memorje!Try to put another hdd and try to format it IF hdd is SATA it need special drivers
SOURCE: O S disc, Toshiba L35-S1054
No unfortunately XP home and XP media edition are different but not completely. The only difference is the entertainment factor like TV control and live recording and pausing , viewing photos etc and media center is considered to be a bit more secure than XP home but i find this just a wrong perception of people as i also have XP home and also had media center, makes no difference at all regarding security but yes if u want much more features or facilities as far as entertainment is considered media center edition is far more good than XP home.......
IF U INSTALL XP HOME THAT DOES NOT MEAN U INSTALLED XP MEDIA CENTER
Now there are 2 ways to solve ur problem
1. Either get a NEW disc from microsoft or any computer shop for media center and then install it.
OR
2. Install XP home on your system and then try to put the CD for media center , it will update XP to media center . In this way u will get the media center back and u will also not lose any previous stored data.
NOTE: In both the above cases u will have to get the CD for Media center......
Wat matters is losing the data that is already stored on your system.
BUT AGAIN I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND HERE IS THAT INSTALLING XP HOME WILL NOT GET BACK U TO MEDIA CENTER AS THEY ARE DIFFERENT BUT IT MAKES NOT DIFFERENCE WHETHER IT IS XP HOME OR MEDIA CENTER AS ONLY DIFFERENCE IS ENTERTAINMENT>>> IN THE WORLD THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE USING XP HOME THAN MEDIA CENTER>>>
I would recommend to cont. with XP home
SOURCE: Installing XP on Toshiba Portege R500 Notebook
Guys, if you have the genuine XP CD, please download the Storage Driver from Intel and slipstream it into your version of XP CD. You can also slipstream Service Packs into it as well.
Personally I hate Vista so much. It really brings out the angry devil in me.
By the way, the best and easiest way to slipstream is to install and use nLite http://www.nliteos.com/
Let me know if you want help on installing XP on R500 (I build it a few days ago, but regret to update the BIOS to version 1.06 as I lost the Ctrl key on it).
To get to the BIOS, press and hold the Esc key then Power button.
SOURCE: how can i desable sata hard drive in laptop for installing win XP
in the BIOS you should change the following option
sata native mode should be disable.
SOURCE: Unable to install Win XP on Toshiba portege R500
make the SATA disk mode from ACHI
to Compatibility in the BIOS. once its done without any problem you can make partitions, installa Windows XP. hope this helped you. thanks.
Ammar.
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