Installing MS-sourced Windows XP on HP Pavilion G series

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Peborgh

I formatted (not quick formatting) the hard disk of this laptop on another PC under windows 10.
reinstalled the disk into the laptop. (The laptop originally delivered with Windows 7.)
started up from windows XP installation disk I got from MS years ago.
Seemed to go ok - files got downloaded - until this blue screen of death appeared:
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down...
blah blah"
suggested looking for viruses- none that I know of
suggested run chkdsk/p - can't as no windows and no floppy drive
then "STOP: 0x0000007B 0xF78D2524 0XC0000034 0x00000000 0x00000000"

I thought that formatting the disk would wipe anything original from it but it appeared not.
Running disk diagnostics form BIOS shows no problems.

What is going on? What am I missing?

Many thanks,

peter
 
Curiously enough just yesterday I bumped my head against the same rock while trying unsuccessfully to install XP on an old Win7 desktop. After a bit of hard core swearing sheer luck brought me to a forum where I found both my identical problem and its easy solution (happens about once every solar eclipse):

Q.:
so i built my computer asrock z77 extreme 4 motherboard, evga gtx660 graphics card, i5-3570k 3.4ghz processor, 16gb vengeance ram, when i start the computer i get to that screen for the motherboard with the time and temperature and etc, however if i attempt to install windows xp it starts off loading the files then a bit later the blue screen appears with a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer along with one of those stop 0x08000 etc numbers, why is this happening? do i need a windows 7 or windows 8? is windows xp not compatible? do i need to do something with my harddrive first before attempting to install it?

A.:
XP does not have SATA drivers. You need to go into the BIOS and set the SATA controller to ATA mode instead of AHCI or you need to find the XP SATA drivers for your SATA controller and load them from a floppy disk (yes, floppy disk) during installation. Another possibility is to slipstream the SATA drivers onto your XP install CD.

It worked fine for me (just had to replace "ATA" with "IDE"). I think it might work OK for you as well.
Good luck!
 
Thankyou for your post. It ought to be helpful but unfortunately I am not that proficient with the techniques required and I could not just change the BIOS as you did. I am buying a Windows 7 64bit installation DVD instead on eBay. If you have comments on this, please let me know...

Onward to victory

peter
 
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