This product was not designed for windows nt

1. 17th Feb 2010 09:59

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   Thief:Gold and Windows 7
   

   Hello, I recently acquired Thief Gold, and am attempting to install it on my new machine(got it just prior to last Christmas), and I keep getting hit with the same message(compatibility has already been taken care of) — «This product cannot be installed on Windows NT due to a DirectX(tm) limitation.» Can someone here tell me how to beat it into submission? I really wanna play the «Thieve’s Guild», «Mage’s Tower», and «Song’s of the Cavern» levels!

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2. 17th Feb 2010 10:56

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   http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031
   If you’d looked in this thread you’d have found what you need to know.

   I actually installed TG on Win7 this morning.

   OK, Put CD in drive —
   Go to Start, then Run, then type d:setup.exe -lgntforce, where d: is your CDrom/DVDrom drive.

   Install, run it (to set up the cam.cfg file), it will probably freeze and you’ll have no vids.
   Close it down.
   Extract DDfix to the directory your Thief.exe is in.
   Run the ddfixGUI.exe (right click, run as administrator), check the video fix box and choose what resolution you want. (if you have a wide screen/non standard resolution monitor, then just leave it on 800×600 and we’ll fix it later). Click apply patch.
   Go to the Thief Gold shortcut on your desktop or the THIEF.exe file, right click, go to compatibility, choose XP, service pack2 and run as administrator.
   There we go.
   If you have a wide screen monitor now extract the widescreen fix to the folder with your thief exe in. Run the DarkWidescreen.bat file and enter your resolution. Enter 100 for the fov.

   Sit back and enjoy Thief Gold.

   Last edited by Namdrol; 17th Feb 2010 at 11:02.

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3. 17th Feb 2010 23:49

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   That doesn’t help me because my Windows 7 Start menu doesn’t have a «Run» option in it! Try again, please.

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4. 18th Feb 2010 04:54

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   Scorpion12
   Click on your Start menu, click on All Programs, find a folder labelled Accessories, click on it, it will open and you’ll see Run there about 8-9 programs down.
   Or even easier, click on your Start menu, then in the search box at the very bottom type the following:
   R then U and finally N.
   This should bring Run up at the top under programs. Click on it and follow the instructions I gave above.

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5. 18th Feb 2010 06:03

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6. 18th Feb 2010 06:29

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   Let me know how you got on.

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7. 18th Feb 2010 07:36

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   Wht do you know, it worked, I’m finally good to go. Thanks! (hehheh… )

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8. 19th Feb 2010 09:19

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   Small addition to Windows 7 Setup Guide
   

   Originally Posted by Namdrol
   

   Run the ddfixGUI.exe (right click, run as administrator), check the video fix box and choose what
   resolution you want. (if you have a wide screen/non standard resolution monitor, then just leave it on 800×600 and we’ll fix it later). Click apply patch.

   Go to the Thief Gold shortcut on your desktop or the THIEF.exe file, right click, go to compatibility, choose XP, service pack2 and run as administrator.

   Just a small addition, when I wanted to apply the ddfix patch Windows reported that «ddfixGUI caused an error and would be closed».
   A manual installation according to the ddfix readme file was successful. I though I would leave this comment here for future reference. So try that if you have the same problem.

   On the compatibility remark, I tried running in compatibility mode and without it. Both worked for me. Any reason why this should be switched on?

   System: AMD Phenom II X4, running Windows 7 x64

   Last edited by Wouter; 19th Feb 2010 at 09:26.

   Reason: System discription added

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9. 19th Apr 2010 05:20

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   Still will not work
   

   Hi there

   We cannot get Thief Gold to run on windows 7 at all. It crashes as soon as we press NEW GAME or OPTIONS. It wont even work without using Garrettloader. It was fine on Windows XP.
   We followed the info for DDfix but still crashes when starting new game

   Is there any patches for windows 7 please?

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10. 19th Apr 2010 05:21

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    Still will not work
    

    Hi there

    We cannot get Thief Gold to run on windows 7 at all. It crashes as soon as we press NEW GAME or OPTIONS. It wont even work without using Garrettloader. It was fine on Windows XP.
    We followed the info for DDfix but and set compatibitily mode to xp service pack 2 still crashes when starting new game

    Is there any patches for windows 7 please?

    Thanks

    Last edited by bigshaun6767; 19th Apr 2010 at 05:37.

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11. 19th Apr 2010 05:34

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    I got it working but still crashes when going to options menu

    Thanks

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12. 19th Apr 2010 20:50

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    Some quick checks:
    — Have you tried installing DDFix manually? You need a different version of the DDFix graphical installer for x64 versions of Windows.
    — Make sure the graphics resolutions are 1280 x 1024 in both the ddfix.ini and the thief config (cfg) file. That’s probably the best one to try out while debugging. The resolutions must be «standard» 4:3 ones.
    — GarrettLoader won’t make any difference to the Dark engine, so it’s probably best to leave it uninstalled while you try to fix Thief.

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13. 1st Apr 2012 23:12

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    I bought Thief gold and Thief 2 from GoG.com. Both have ddfix installed already. I only need to apply the widescreen patch to Thief 2 and it works. Thief Gold however doesn’t. The games menu launches in windowed mode and maps are not loaded, the screen remains black after the cutscene.

    Any ideas how to fix this?

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14. 15th Apr 2012 00:44

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    Shame there is no solution for this.

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15. 15th Apr 2012 13:04

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    try the sticky on the gog thief forum.

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16. 17th May 2012 09:13

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    It’s 2012 and this still helped loads. Thanks a lot!!

    Originally Posted by Namdrol
    

    http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031
    If you’d looked in this thread you’d have found what you need to know.

    I actually installed TG on Win7 this morning.

    OK, Put CD in drive —
    Go to Start, then Run, then type d:setup.exe -lgntforce, where d: is your CDrom/DVDrom drive.

    Install, run it (to set up the cam.cfg file), it will probably freeze and you’ll have no vids.
    Close it down.
    Extract DDfix to the directory your Thief.exe is in.
    Run the ddfixGUI.exe (right click, run as administrator), check the video fix box and choose what resolution you want. (if you have a wide screen/non standard resolution monitor, then just leave it on 800×600 and we’ll fix it later). Click apply patch.
    Go to the Thief Gold shortcut on your desktop or the THIEF.exe file, right click, go to compatibility, choose XP, service pack2 and run as administrator.
    There we go.
    If you have a wide screen monitor now extract the widescreen fix to the folder with your thief exe in. Run the DarkWidescreen.bat file and enter your resolution. Enter 100 for the fov.

    Sit back and enjoy Thief Gold.

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17. 20th Dec 2012 06:30

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    TTLG
    

    Guys, I have a problem. I installed Thief Gold by following your instructions because I have Windows7 and every time I try to play thief, the game blocks, it stops completely after a while and I don’t know what to do…help please

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18. 20th Dec 2012 06:58

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    http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134733

    have you seriously dug up a 2010 topic instead of just reading the big stickied one?

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19. 20th Dec 2012 06:59

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    Originally Posted by Godfather
    

    Guys, I have a problem. I installed Thief Gold by following your instructions because I have Windows7 and every time I try to play thief, the game blocks, it stops completely after a while and I don’t know what to do…help please

    The instructions above are pretty much outdated, since in october a miracle happened and an ultimate fix (NewDark v1.19) has been gifted to the community.
    I would recommend to start from scratch using the instructions that voodoo47 just pointed you to:
    The TFix patch contains basicly everything you need in a convenient way.

    Welcome to the forum, Godfather !

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20. 16th Jan 2013 17:58

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    Originally Posted by Namdrol
    

    I actually installed TG on Win7 this morning.

    OK, Put CD in drive —
    Go to Start, then Run, then type d:setup.exe -lgntforce, where d: is your CDrom/DVDrom drive.

    Hello,
    when I type d:setup.exe -lgntforce nothing happens.
    I can’t install Thief Gold and Thief 2 on Win 7 with DirectX 9.29 but I had it installed on my old CPU with Win 7.

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21. 16th Jan 2013 18:36

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    you don’t need to run the setup. just use Tafferpatcher for T2 (will pull the required data from the cd if necessary) and TFix for T1 (copy the game folder onto your hdd and run the patcher, it should work, but I can’t test it as I don’t have the original cd release of Thief).

    still amazed that people seem to miss the stickies, but manage to find this undead topic.

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22. 18th Jan 2013 18:58

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    I got it running. Thanks.

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23. 13th Jun 2013 10:35

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    Hey thanks for this — I will try this as well with my Thief Gold original box from way back. Gonna be great to play this fantastic game again on win7

    Regarding why people don’t read the stickies: I agree they should but sometimes ppl can get a bit lost in them I suppose — i dunno —

    but I KNOW i heard something! Anyone there???_! GET BACK HERE!?

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    Originally Posted by ComeBack’ereU Taffer
    

    I agree they should but sometimes ppl can get a bit lost in them I suppose — i dunno —

    but I KNOW i heard something! Anyone there???_! GET BACK HERE!?

    

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No previous version of windows nt can be found on your computer что делать

Я попытался переустановить Windows XP на моем нетбуке Lenovo S10e, но я получил эту ошибку:

На вашем компьютере не найдена предыдущая версия Windows NT. Программа установки не может подтвердить, что вы подходите для установки этого продукта обновления. Чтобы выйти из настройки, нажмите F3

Этот ноутбук не имеет оптического привода, поэтому я устанавливаю XP через USB-порт.

У меня была такая же проблема на моем ноутбуке MSI. Если на вашем ноутбуке есть жесткий диск SATA, зайдите в BIOS и отключите AHCI, и вы готовы установить XP без проблем.

3 000 раз, возможно, вам следует предоставить дополнительную информацию, источник и решения для дисков IDE. malakrsnaslava 6 лет назад 0

Old post. Answering anyways in the hope that nobody will ever need this information since XP is long since dead.

XP and addional drivers:

In order to access a harddrive you need drives for mass storage and drivers for the HDD controller. The first is build into XP. The second might be.

If the driver is already on the XP installation CD then you do not need to do anything. If the driver is not on the standard CD then you have at least two choices:

XP and AHCI

In the past we used many storage devices. All sorts of SCSI, ESDA, ATA etc etc. For all of these we need drivers. By the time XP reached SP3 the home systems had mostly moved to the ATA interface and there were relative few chipsets. This means almost all drivers for these chipsets could be added to the installation CD and the user got used to things ‘just working out of the box’.

This is no longer true with the move to SATA. SATA in it normal AHCI mode is not compatible with IDE/Paralel-ATA. You will need to add drivers. If there ever was a XP SP4 then these would probably be added. However we never got XP SP4. Instead home users moved to Vista, win7 and beyond.

This means that we:

Option 1 is obviously the best, tough you need to come prepared with the right driver on a floppy. And by that time floppy drives had become rare. That means that windows will not find any disk (and no previous NT installation on a disk) when you boot from an XP CD in normal AHCI mode with no added drivers.

This is one possible reason that the OP’s installation failed.

An other possible reason is that the OP wiped the disk and used an upgrade CD. The upgrade searches for a previous installation which is no longer there. Obvious fix: Use a regular XP CD.

Lastly there is a booting from USB part. You can boot from an USB pendrive is your firmware (BIOS) supports it. This works if your firmware has some knowledge about how USB and mass storage woks and can emulate it via the old 0x80 interrupt. However after XP initialses it takes over USB and it needs the relevant drivers. Depending on SP and chips used these might not be loaded at that time.

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Windows 10 Stuck on “Restoring your previous version of Windows” loop

I have a laptop running Windows 10. I updated Windows 10 last night. I start up my laptop today and it’s stuck on this loop where it’s on this screen that says “Restoring your previous version of Windows” I have no idea how to fix this. Please help.

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This issue can be caused by a failed Windows update. There are several ways on how we can resolve your issue with getting stuck at Restoring your previous version of Windows loop. As an initial recommendation, we suggest that you follow the steps below to reset your PC:

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Thia doesn’t help me, it’s stuck on the loop dueing startup, so i can’t access Settings

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We appreciate the clarification, James. Since you’re unable to access Settings, you can access Startup Repair from the sign-in screen. Here’s how:

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I am having the exact same problem as James and it appears many other people in additional online forums are having. we cannot even get to Windows nor a sign-in page.

The computer is essentially frozen or stuck in an endless loop. We get nowhere near Windows, it attempts to restore the previous version of Windows the screen goes completely black and it starts over again. This is been going on for 2 days straight. The Windows update or had previously attempted to install and I had some error code and then I thought I was done dealing with the update installer.

Please help. I don’t have a backup image to install, it wasn’t provided when I purchased mt pc.

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Based on your post, there is a possibility that the upgrade has failed and caused Windows to restore your PC back to its previous version. However, the restoration cannot be completed because the recovery file or the system image for restoration may be corrupted. Hence, an endless restoration loop happens when starting your device.

Having said, we’d like to verify if you have already tried the solution suggested by Jennifer Bri on how to perform a Startup repair. Aside from the Startup repair, you can also try performing a System Restore by following the same steps from the Advanced options.

Once you are done with the initial steps, please respond back with the result so we can provide an additional solution.

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Установка Windows XP, без предыдущей версии Windows NT

Я попытался переустановить Windows XP на своем нетбуке Lenovo S10e, но я получил эту ошибку:

No previous version of Windows NT can be found on your computer. Setup cannot verify that you qualify to install this upgrade product. To quit setup, press F3

В этом ноутбуке нет оптического дисковода, поэтому я устанавливаю XP через USB-накопитель.

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Старый пост. Отвечая на любые вопросы в надежде, что никто никогда не будет нуждаться в этой информации, поскольку XP уже давно мертв.

XP и дополнительные драйверы:

Для доступа к жесткому диску вам нужны диски для массового хранения и драйверы для контроллера жесткого диска. Первый встроен в XP. Второй может быть.

Если драйвер уже установлен на установочном компакт-диске XP, вам ничего не нужно делать. Если драйвер отсутствует на стандартном компакт-диске, у вас есть как минимум два варианта:

XP и AHCI

В прошлом мы использовали много устройств хранения. Все виды SCSI, ESDA, ATA и т. Д. Для всех этих продуктов нам нужны драйверы. К тому времени, когда XP достиг SP3, домашние системы в основном перешли на интерфейс ATA, и было относительно немного чипсетов. Это означает, что почти все драйверы для этих наборов микросхем могут быть добавлены на установочный компакт-диск, и пользователь привык к тому, что «просто работает из коробки».

Это больше не относится к переходу на SATA. SATA в нем нормальный режим AHCI не совместим с IDE / Paralel-ATA. Вам нужно будет добавить драйверы. Если бы был XP SP4, то они, вероятно, были бы добавлены. Однако мы никогда не получали XP SP4. Вместо этого домашние пользователи переместились в Vista, win7 и далее.

Это означает, что мы:

Вариант 1, очевидно, самый лучший, жесткий, вам нужно подготовиться к правильному драйверу на дискете. И к тому времени флоппи-дисководы стали редкими. Это означает, что при загрузке с компакт-диска XP в обычном режиме AHCI без добавленных драйверов окна не найдут диск (и no previous NT installation на диске).

Это одна из возможных причин отказа установки OP.

Другая возможная причина заключается в том, что OP стирает диск и использует компакт-диск с обновлением. Обновление ищет предыдущую установку, которой больше нет. Очевидное исправление: используйте обычный компакт-диск XP.

Наконец, происходит загрузка с USB-части. Вы можете загрузиться с USB-накопителя, поддерживая его прошивку (BIOS). Это работает, если ваша прошивка имеет некоторые знания о том, как USB и массовое хранилище копают и могут эмулировать ее через старое прерывание 0x80. Однако после инициализации XP он берет на себя USB и ему нужны соответствующие драйверы. В зависимости от SP и используемых чипов они могут не загружаться в это время.

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Windows XP installation, no previous version of Windows NT

I tried to reinstall Windows XP on my Lenovo S10e netbook, but I got this error:

No previous version of Windows NT can be found on your computer. Setup cannot verify that you qualify to install this upgrade product. To quit setup, press F3

This notebook has no optical drive, so I am installing XP via an USB pendrive.

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Old post. Answering anyways in the hope that nobody will ever need this information since XP is long since dead.

XP and addional drivers:

In order to access a harddrive you need drives for mass storage and drivers for the HDD controller. The first is build into XP. The second might be.

If the driver is already on the XP installation CD then you do not need to do anything. If the driver is not on the standard CD then you have at least two choices:

XP and AHCI

In the past we used many storage devices. All sorts of SCSI, ESDA, ATA etc etc. For all of these we need drivers. By the time XP reached SP3 the home systems had mostly moved to the ATA interface and there were relative few chipsets. This means almost all drivers for these chipsets could be added to the installation CD and the user got used to things ‘just working out of the box’.

This is no longer true with the move to SATA. SATA in it normal AHCI mode is not compatible with IDE/Paralel-ATA. You will need to add drivers. If there ever was a XP SP4 then these would probably be added. However we never got XP SP4. Instead home users moved to Vista, win7 and beyond.

This means that we:

Option 1 is obviously the best, tough you need to come prepared with the right driver on a floppy. And by that time floppy drives had become rare. That means that windows will not find any disk (and no previous NT installation on a disk) when you boot from an XP CD in normal AHCI mode with no added drivers.

This is one possible reason that the OP’s installation failed.

An other possible reason is that the OP wiped the disk and used an upgrade CD. The upgrade searches for a previous installation which is no longer there. Obvious fix: Use a regular XP CD.

Lastly there is a booting from USB part. You can boot from an USB pendrive is your firmware (BIOS) supports it. This works if your firmware has some knowledge about how USB and mass storage woks and can emulate it via the old 0x80 interrupt. However after XP initialses it takes over USB and it needs the relevant drivers. Depending on SP and chips used these might not be loaded at that time.

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Установка Windows XP, нет предыдущей версии Windows NT

Я попытался переустановить Windows XP на моем нетбуке Lenovo S10e, но я получил эту ошибку:

На вашем компьютере не найдена предыдущая версия Windows NT. Программа установки не может подтвердить, что вы подходите для установки этого продукта обновления. Чтобы выйти из настройки, нажмите F3

Этот ноутбук не имеет оптического привода, поэтому я устанавливаю XP через USB-порт.

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Старый пост. Отвечать в любом случае в надежде, что эта информация никому не понадобится, поскольку XP давно умерла.

XP и дополнительные драйверы:

Чтобы получить доступ к жесткому диску, вам нужны диски для хранения данных и драйверы для контроллера жесткого диска. Первый встроен в XP. Второй может быть.

Если драйвер уже находится на установочном компакт-диске XP, вам не нужно ничего делать. Если драйвер отсутствует на стандартном компакт-диске, у вас есть как минимум два варианта:

XP и AHCI

В прошлом мы использовали много устройств хранения данных. Все виды SCSI, ESDA, ATA и т.д. И т.д. Для всего этого нам нужны драйверы. К моменту выхода XP на SP3 домашние системы в основном перешли на интерфейс ATA, и чипсетов было относительно немного. Это означает, что почти все драйверы для этих наборов микросхем могут быть добавлены на установочный компакт-диск, и пользователь привык к тому, что «просто работает из коробки».

Это больше не относится к переходу на SATA. SATA в нем в обычном режиме AHCI не совместим с IDE/Paralel-ATA. Вам нужно будет добавить драйверы. Если когда-либо был XP SP4, то они, вероятно, будут добавлены. Однако мы никогда не получали XP SP4. Вместо этого домашние пользователи перешли на Vista, win7 и выше.

Это означает, что мы:

Вариант 1, очевидно, лучший, но вам нужно подготовиться с подходящим драйвером на дискете. И к тому времени дисководы стали редкостью. Это означает, что Windows не найдет ни одного диска (и no previous NT installation на диск) при загрузке с компакт-диска XP в обычном режиме AHCI без добавления драйверов.

Это одна из возможных причин сбоя установки OP.

Другая возможная причина заключается в том, что OP стер диск и использовал компакт-диск обновления. При обновлении выполняется поиск предыдущей установки, которой больше нет. Очевидное исправление: используйте обычный XP CD.

Наконец, есть загрузка с USB-части. Вы можете загрузиться с USB-накопителя, если ваша прошивка (BIOS) его поддерживает. Это работает, если ваша прошивка знает о том, как работает USB и запоминающее устройство, и может эмулировать его через старое прерывание 0x80. Однако после инициализации XP он перехватывает USB и требует соответствующих драйверов. В зависимости от SP и используемых чипов они могут не загружаться в это время.

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Old post. Answering anyways in the hope that nobody will ever need this information since XP is long since dead.

XP and addional drivers:

In order to access a harddrive you need drives for mass storage and drivers for the HDD controller. The first is build into XP. The second might be.

If the driver is already on the XP installation CD then you do not need to do anything. If the driver is not on the standard CD then you have at least two choices:

1. Create a custom CD with addition drivers (slipstream),
2. or load the driver during setup. You will be instructed do to this by the installation process with a ‘Press F6 to load additional drives’. At that stage you press F6 and insert the floppy with the relevant driver.

XP and AHCI

In the past we used many storage devices. All sorts of SCSI, ESDA, ATA etc etc. For all of these we need drivers. By the time XP reached SP3 the home systems had mostly moved to the ATA interface and there were relative few chipsets. This means almost all drivers for these chipsets could be added to the installation CD and the user got used to things ‘just working out of the box’.

This is no longer true with the move to SATA. SATA in it normal AHCI mode is not compatible with IDE/Paralel-ATA. You will need to add drivers. If there ever was a XP SP4 then these would probably be added. However we never got XP SP4. Instead home users moved to Vista, win7 and beyond.

This means that we:

1. Either need to load a driver. Without driver no harddisk controller and no harddisk behind that controller will be found.
2. Or we need to set the SATA interface to a slower, less capable mode which is compatible with P-ATA/IDE.

Option 1 is obviously the best, tough you need to come prepared with the right driver on a floppy. And by that time floppy drives had become rare. That means that windows will not find any disk (and no previous NT installation on a disk) when you boot from an XP CD in normal AHCI mode with no added drivers.

This is one possible reason that the OP’s installation failed.

An other possible reason is that the OP wiped the disk and used an upgrade CD. The upgrade searches for a previous installation which is no longer there. Obvious fix: Use a regular XP CD.

USB

Lastly there is a booting from USB part. You can boot from an USB pendrive is your firmware (BIOS) supports it. This works if your firmware has some knowledge about how USB and mass storage woks and can emulate it via the old 0x80 interrupt. However after XP initialses it takes over USB and it needs the relevant drivers. Depending on SP and chips used these might not be loaded at that time.