I bought DELL INSPIRON 3521 last week. Which came with Windows 8 OEM
My Configuration
1 TB HDD
8 GB RAM
Core i5 1.5
I tried to install 2003 with CD, i got blue screen error. when i researched and fount that i need to change SATA settings in bios from AHCI to ATA. and the installation went ahead, but the issues is that, at installation windows 2003 server is showing complete 1TB. But i have already made partitions in windows 8. which is not shown. So i exited setup and restarted. I got error message saying windows 8 was corrupted and need to recover form recovery disk. I restarted and changed the bios settings back to AHCI and windows 8 worked normal.
My observations are that Windows 8 in working in AHCI mode where as windows 2003 need ATA mode.
I tried create VHD in widows 8 using help from thsi blog, but that options are disabled.
can any one guide me how can i have dual boot with Original Windows 8 which came with lappy and windows 2003.
I contacted Dell regarding this they simply said they don't support 2003.
PBL (Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Win 7 64 bit Ultimate)
