Hard Drive - Tech Information - Disc Installing

Jul 16, 2008

well this is my first computer i built so i'm a little inexpierianced but here's the problem i powered on my computer and put in the xp disc i boot it up from the disc and so the disc is installing xp it says windows is starting up for about 15 seconds the screen goes black and i get the bsod. it talks about my i get the error code : stop: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) i've found what these mean but not wha

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I bought a dv2660se hp laptop (which had vista home on it). I used G-parted to destroy all partitions including the tiny back-up partition. When I put in the windows XP disc, it says that it cannot find the hard disc. What does this mean? One of the geek squad guys told me that you can't install xp on hdmi laptops. I'm pretty sure my laptop is hdmi.

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