Solved! Dreaded Blue Screen

[jeksa2]

I am running win 7 on a Sony laptop. I used to have it partitioned and also ran win XP.
The laptop crashed and l had to go from scratch. Now that l have partitioned it again, when l try to instal XP l get the dreaded blue screen and the message run chkdsk/f and virus scan. Both done ok but still cannot instal XP. Any help please?

 

[sirstinky]

Is it only doing that on the partition for Windows XP, or is it happening on boot? If it's happening on startup out of the BIOS and splash, then it's an issue with your drive not finding the bootloader files for Windows. Can be a couple of things. One, your disk has died, or is dying (could be why it crashed in the first place), or your boot files are missing from Windows. If it works fine with just the Windows 7 as primary partition, then it's related to your adding two partitions for a dual-boot. There are other ways to have a dual boot that like with a virtual machine that will work better in most situations and you won't run into partition errors. Try running the chkdsk if you haven't already. As far as the virus scan? I don't know how you are getting that if you can't get into the OS?

 

[jeksa2]

Thank you for your reply,
It is only doing it when l put the win XP disc in and xp loads its files then l get the blue screen.
Win 7 runs perfectly.
Can you please suggest a virtual machine prog for Win 7 Home Premium
Thank you