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I have a problem here ! WinXp on new Laptops

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I bought new Toshiba and Acer Laptop the problem is i want windows xp on both systems but when i try Xp says

Setup did not find any hard disk

There is no problem in installing Vista.

Some systems through bios we can disable sata then we can install xp, but i did’nt find something in bios, so the Question is how to install Xp.

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Most likely

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you will need to add the SATA drivers during the install.

also possible

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there are not any XP drivers for the laptops.

some of the newer systems were coming with Vista only options and no way to go back.

Check the vendors site for driver downloads.

Model numbers are required for anything more than a wild guess.

SATA Drivers

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As W2K Techman stated, you will need to install the SATA drivers in order for XP to see the hard drive.

Almost all new laptops use eSATA hard drives, and XP does not come with a native driver for the newer SATA interface.

If Toshiba or Acer do not offer XP drivers for your laptops, you can try 2 things.

1. Find an older version of a similar laptop and download the XP drivers for it.

2. Download the “reference” XP drivers from the chip-set manufactures web site.

You will need to create a CD or floppy disk with the SATA drivers on it.

Then, startup the laptop with the XP CD.
When the prompt appears for loading a storage driver, make sure to press the key. (F8?).
When prompted for the disk, insert the CD or floppy and load the drivers.

XP should now see your hard drive and install.

Chas

It’s F6 …. (nt)

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Or you may need to create your own Windows Install CD

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Which has the SATA Drivers on the Slipstreamed Disc.

Follow the directions in this TR Article and you will be able to include the SATA Drivers and any Patches into your own personal Install CD

http://tinyurl.com/2ehzk3

While this was originally written to include SP2 to XP it is also possible to include SATA Drivers for your NB’s as most new ones don’t come with Floppy Drives and they are a problem to include extra drivers not on the Install CD.

Col

You’d be surprised how many people don’t realize this about SATA drives

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Everyone is so used to IDE drives being auto-detected during install, that people naturally assume the same thing will happen with SATA drives, which can’t be further from the truth. SATA and SAS drives are closer to SCSI in reality, and thus will require their own drivers to be recognized by Windows XP, because the XP kernel predates when SATA drives were available. Vista addresses this issue and sees the SATA drives just fine because it has the drives built in already. The same problem existed back then on NT systems, where you had to push F6 to get it to see SCSI drives.

Another way to do it is to take out the drives..

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And connect them up to a pc and then load on the Windows disk, after this just replace them into the laptops. You are only loading on the Windows software and the sata drivers. After this the laptops will run fine.
Just something else to try out.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

go into bios

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once in bios go to the hard drive and then sata section under the second tab slect enter and change it from ahci to ide this will allow xp installs

Same problem different day

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We done the above solutions in the past (changing the BIOS and Slipstreaming Sata Drivers)and they work for the Dell’s that we use. We wanted to try the Toshiba Satellite U305-S7467 which does have XP drivers posted but we have had no luck finding a SATA driver that recognizes the drive and there is nothing in the Bios to change either.

Any Ideas?

same problem with sony vaio’s

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I’m having the same problem with a Sony Vaio VGN-NR285E. XP can’t recognize the HD, and there is no setting in bios to change the HD info. I guess the next step is to dig through layers of garbage and get the sata chipset drivers from sony.

As new NB’s don;t have Floppies available

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You can make your own Slipstreamed Install Disc’s by following the directions here and adding the SATA Driver.

http://tinyurl.com/54gjzz

or here for the downloadable copy

http://tinyurl.com/5q2jsw

While both of these say they add SP2 & Hot-patches adding a SATA Driver is the same as adding a Hot Patch.

If you prefer to Point & Click nLite is a software solution that you can use.

http://tinyurl.com/e2mo4

The reason why the CD is restarting after the initial sequence is that the system is not finding a HDD present to install the OS to. So if you have a SATA Drive you need to ad the drivers and if there is a IDE Drive it is either Faulty or needs Formatting to have a place to install the OS to. If you watched the screen the reason why this is happening would ave been told to you something like No HDD Present/Detected would have been shown.

Col

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