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by naxhijejakupi 1 view

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My laptop is new, and it is without any os. now i need to install windows xp. it is also without formating and there is only a litle softwer "intel (R) boot agent (beta)".
I have also a cd with the drivers of laptop but i cant start to install.
I please for help

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by thumbsup2

Set the BIOS to boot from the CD, put the Windows CD in the drive and reboot. XP will take care of formatting the drive.

by thechas

Most new laptops come with SATA drives.

If this laptop has a SATA drive, while the XP installer is loading press F6 to load a drive controller.

From the device driver CD, load the SATA driver when prompted by the XP installer.

There was a post in another thread where it was pointed out that on some systems the BIOS allows you to set the SATA controller so that it looks like a normal IDE controller to the Windows installer.

Chas

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