Problems installing a second XP.

Question

Just bought a new T61p. It has a preinstalled XP Pro.
I'd like to have a second XP Pro on another partition.
I've resized the first one (with Ubuntu's partition tool), created a second Primary with NTFS and am trying to launch the XP installer (I've got my own XP CD).
So when it's time to pick a partition to do an install, all he sees is some weird, huge (131GB) partition which might actually be an empty space left from forming the two abovementioned NTFS partitions. (But that would be weird since I haven't created any partitions in that empty space.)
Moreover, I can recall from other install experiences that the installer would always see the partition with currently installed XP (thus offering to overwrite/repair or sth.) And he doesn't even see this existing system!
To be clear - the preloaded XP Pro works just fine and when I launch it, I can actually see also the other NTFS partition.
Message Edited by Axure on 05-31-2008 11:28 PM

Answer 1

> {quote:title=Gipsyman wrote:}{quote}
> The XP BIOS for the X200-G20 was not released. I didn??t find any XP BIOS for this notebook series on the Toshiba European driver page.
> Please note that you can use only the BIOS which were designed especially for this notebook series!!!
Well, excuse me *Gipsyman* I surely don't want to be a pest, but the need to install XP on the Toshba X200 20G (for example) is not a dream, it is a hard reality and in Europe I know tens of people (if not much many) who had to do so because their preloaded Vista was not at all answering their needs, and there was no longer Toshiba laptops available preloaded with XP.
I am member of a forum which is dedicated to the Toshiba X200, I can tell you that we love our Toshiba and are very happy ( /proud ?) of it and I am not sure how many have kept the original platform, but definitely it's very few.
By the way, Toshiba releases 32 drivers for XP in his European download page, so this does not happen by chance.
In fact lots of people are wondering for the BIOS compatibility under XP, so my purpose, asking this question earlier in this post, and trying to make our position clear in this one, is to make the part between what is the theory: e.g. "The Toshiba X200 is preloaded with Vista, all changes to XP is under customer responsibility and at his own risks" (let me smile a bit here as Thoshiba still kindly provides XP drivers....) and the reality: e.g. "hei guys!, be careful, if you update your BIOS while you are running XP, you take the risk to break something".... see what I mean?
I hope this clarifies what I (my European friends and I) need to know: what is the real risk of making BIOS updates while our laptops are running XP because we had to.
Pls, again, don't see anything aggressive in my lines (I really appreciate your help), just a willingness to make things clear.
Guy