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by ttrza1986

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I recently cam into possession of a VAIO VGN-NR160E that has been shipped with windows Vista. I have not been convinced that it is the right time for me to begin using this OS so I'd like to replace it with windows XP. During the install however windows was unable to detect my Hard Disk Drive (Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00). I used a utility named Driver Genius to load the driver onto a floppy disk (backuplog.txt, disk.inf, disk.sys, driver.nfo) and tried the install again.
The message i got was file txtsetup.oem could not be found. I already tried Hitatchi's website to no avail. Any tips?

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by thechas

You don't need a driver from Hitachi, you need the storage controller driver for the chip-set.

Is this a SATA drive?

If so, you need the SATA driver for the chip-set.

Chas

by ttrza1986

I actually tried that already. It's an Intel ICHN8M SATA AHCI controller. I used driver genius to get the driver onto the floppy. Got the same message "file txtsetup.oem" could not be found. I haven't tried intel's site yet. I'll do that now and see how it goes.

by ttrza1986

Pretty interesting end to this one. After spending quite a bit of time looking for the driver i needed to no avail, i decided to go to Sony for help. It seems that the machine I was working on ships only with windows vista and furthermore no XP drivers exist for that machine. I guess microsoft will do just about anything to sell their new os including forcing it on you with the purchase of a new machine and giving you no way out.

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