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Feb 23rd, 2011, 01:44 PM
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Re: Disk Read Error [Press ctrl+alt+delete to restart]
fdisk which comes with windows can do this. tell it which partition to view then mark it as active. easy. Also it can show you which one is currently active.
alternatively you could try a clean install from xp and delete all current partitions then create a new one and this would mark it active for you. You would need to copy your data off the drive first.
since this is a laptop i assume it is one drive with two partitions. go into your bios and make sure you are booting from the hard drive and not a flash drive or something. If you install xp over an existing partition you didn't remove (NOT format! Actually REMOVE) it assumes it is bootable and doesn't check.
you need to get xp working and on the first partition, then install vista
ahci and ide shouldn't matter but don't change it after install.
Last edited by Lord Orwell; Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:50 PM.
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