I had the same thing. Once using ATA it's been fine since.
Hated Vista.

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> On Jun 20, 10:43 am, "Scott" <s...******.co.uk> wrote:
>> got it,
>>
>> had to disable RAID support in BIOS and use ATA instead.
>>
>> Scott
>
> I sure hope this works for me. I tried a bunch of things to get XP to
> install but I get the same "Stop code 0x7B blue screen". Dell told me
> to run fdisk and create new partition...didn't work obviously. I'm
> glad I'm not the only person out there who bought a Dell E20 who isn't
> sticking with Vista Home.
>
> Thanks for posting the fix. I'll see if it works for me too.
>
> Anthony
>