Windows XP unable to install

[ciceron]

Hello, glad to be in this forum.
Okay, here's the thing, I just bought an eMachines E725 laptop. It came with Linpus, but since i do not use it I had no problems using GParted live to make some partitions in the HD. First i tried to install Win XP SP2 in the NTFS partition i created for this purpose, but at some point the process stopped and appeared a screen saying that "windows has been shut down to prevent damage to the equipment" and saying that my HD might have some viruses or bad drivers. Later I tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) in an other partition and i succeeded, Ubuntu is working more than perfectly. After some google research i found that it's probably because of the HD type (sata) which hadn't full support till SP3, so I managed to get a copy of this but the problem remains. So I have no more Ideas but still need windows to run specifically Wolfram-Mathematica and do my gaming (hallo and the like). Any help is highly appreciated.

 

[madmanjohn]

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[newtekie1]

I've reformatted thousands of PCs, including the latest HP laptops/netops, and I can assure you they do nothing of the sort, in fact it would actually be illegal if they did(at least in the US). You can install any OS you want, as long as there are drivers to allow it.

That being said, it is entirely likely that XP has a conflict with some piece of hardware in the computer, it is causing the blue screen.

The first thing I would do is completely wipe the hard drive using the built in tool when you boot the XP CD. Delete every partition, then partition the drive using the XP boot CD. If anything, create a single partition the size you want, for XP, then once XP is installed you can create your other partitions using whatever tool you prefer. Then install Ubuntu.