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Hi Ayoosh,i think i can help you.But i need more information .Can you boot from your hard disk ? Respond :

Hello, Ayoosh 16, What problem you are facing was faced by me a couple of years ago. I dont know the cause, but if you made virtual hard disk than these might be the problem. Virtual hard disk is a technology not older than more than 3 years. But Windows XP was written 6 years back in 2003. Virtual hard disk have the format .vdi ( like word has .doc) which xp is not designed to handle. Try installing xp from other disks if u can borrow. Preferably use windows xp sp3 since it is full of updates and patches. Chances of success increase with SP3 than SP2. Now if your problem is about .vdi then the best solution is to install windows vista or windows 7 on the virtual hard disk since these OSs support virtual hard disk (windows 7 CAN HANDLE BETTER).Now take a software like vista boot pro and recover xp. As you do so, xp will be added to windows boot manger(Present in vista and 7) and you will be able to boot windows xp. Vista is real crap and windows 7 is in testing stage (it rocks and dont recommend removing it), so you have reasons to uninstall them (you can keep them if u want). So what you can do is to format the source of your virtual drive and you will be left with only xp. Try it. Best of Luck

I tried to search for your code, but found nothing satisfactory. They say you must use registry cleaner, can you do it if your OS is not working? Try to change the SATA disk option. It may help. My XP too crashes if I don't change this option. But then it's installed already. Keep posting :)

Sometimes XP installation BSOD before setup starts is normally due to SATA driver not loaded (if our HDD or motherboard supports SATA). You need to install the 3rd party driver fpr the SATA driver so that windows installation can properly recognize the HDD. I've encountered this type of problem with Acer desktop computer and further checking the motherboard specs, it needs the SATA driver loaded before windows XP setup.

I have this problem too when I bought my new Acer Aspire 4720 it is preloaded with Windows Vista. Since i don't like the way Vista behave I change to XP Pro Service Pack 2. What happen is when I loaded the Xp during installing my screen turn to blue same as what you have facing now. My Acer Aspire 4720 don't support Xp because it is intended for Vista only. The thing why this blue screen appearing because of SATA storage driver, in Windows Vista the driver is already loaded once you install the OS. Whereas Xp doesn't have this driver and you must load this during the Installing of Xp(you have to press F6 and load the driver for the SATA). The thing is that loading this driver should be done via USB-Floppy drive because laptops nowadays don't come with internal floppy driver and this will cause you really trouble. The solution is you must have another PC wherein you can modify you Windows Xp OS Installation CD so that you put the SATA driver. first download "winlite.exe" and second the driver of your SATA then install winlite and extract SATA driver if it is in .zip or .rar file this is straight forward. So now you able to modify your Windows XP Installation this and this will serve as your Windows XP OS for your Compaq presario CQ40 425TU.

Hi Ayoosh if you are unable to install XP with the same CD then try to install from some other XP CD. Hope this will solve your problem.