Laptop Opening To A Diagnostic Page

Id skip installing xp and go with 7 as supaduper suggests, youll still need the drivers disk to find the harddrive to install it or if you really need or want xp you can download a version with built in raid drivers so you wont need the drivers disc during the install. Some of the drivers on the disc for vista probably wont work on xp, i had to go hunting for xp drivers myself on the 1721.

Okay what I did was install xp again from scratch, then used acronis to see if there was a problem with the image, there isn't.
I then tried to install 7,but there was a problem with it putting the old OS in OLD. sys, or whatever it does as it couldnt find partition, so I uses easus partition manager to create a new partition and I put 7 on to it. So now I seem to have both OS's on the laptop, I presume I will have to delete the XP partition,then see if I need to find any drivers, it seems to be working ok without any new drivers so far

You can use a program like easyBCD to dual boot between 7 and XP if you want to keep it or just delete the partition and merge with easeus and use XP mode on windows 7

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hi wheelo great stuff do as axxo said and also have you activated win 7 ? if not google for the "Loader" by Daz.
What I do then on all my OS installs is go to the action center and use `windows upate` and update the system for all new drivers then when done go back to the Action center and turn off the Windows update !jobs a good un`

Also if you dont want dual booting, delete the xp partition and merge it with w7 thats another great thing with 7, the disk manager gives you more options fot partition management