I have tried time and time again to dual-boot XP on my Vista machine. I found a great tutorial and followed it step by step. XP completes the initial file copying, but fucking bombs when the gui installation process begins. I keep getting an I/O error which, when reviewing the error further, states that "I:\I386\asms cannot be found". What is pissing me off is that the fucking XP Setup thinks that my goddamn CD/DVD drive is the I drive. It is not. My CD/DVD drive is in fact the D drive.
Has anyone here successfully dual-booted XP through Vista? If so, could you please help me? Most of the shit I found on google is fucking dual-booting XP with Vista Beta.
Dual-booting XP with Vista
Moderator: Thanas
I just tried installing XP from scratch. I formatted the drive that had Vista on it. The GUI setup just stays at "39 minutes remaining". I ejected the disc on purpose. I got an error. I looked at the log to see what was going on, and the fucking shit was trying to access the J drive. THERE IS NO FUCKING J DRIVE!!!!! It is too late to return this piece of shit.
Do you have any internal Media Card readers?
Windows can detect them before CD/DVD drives and assign them lower drive letters (ie say d to g for a multi reader) which can cause the optical drive to be assigned a higher letter, such as the I or J you describe.
However the file error you describe in the first post does sound like a damaged disc problem.
Windows can detect them before CD/DVD drives and assign them lower drive letters (ie say d to g for a multi reader) which can cause the optical drive to be assigned a higher letter, such as the I or J you describe.
However the file error you describe in the first post does sound like a damaged disc problem.
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