hi my operating system is currently vindows vista home premium and i would like to go back to xp pro becuase of problems on vista but when i tried to instal windows xp pro it said it couldnt find my hard drive any help???
get the xp drivers for your computers motherboard. When you start installing xp, it tell you to press f6 to install extra drivers, you would install them at this point and it will recognize your hard drive after that. The xp installation cd, doesn't have the specialized drivers needed for installation on the newest motherboards. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp
What motherboards would those be? I have never had a problem installing XP, without any drivers for my motherboards. The installation of the drivers, for the motherboard, comes after XP is installed. And, if jcoolman's drive is a SATA drive, XP will see it just fine, if the motherboard has SATA connections.
ive got a sata 200gb hard drive my friend said it was there differant driver letters with xp and vista but ive got the letter C aswell so im realy confused :s
guys if i make a partition will it find my hard drive ?????? so i cud hav vista and xp at the same time
The problem is that your XP disk does not have the SATA drivers. I recently had the same problem on an acer aspire 5315, after slipstreaming the driver, it all went well. What make and model is your PC?
If you dont mind burning a new XP disk and you have an intel processor, you can try this tutorial. It may or may not work but even if it doesn't you will know what to do when you do get the correct drivers. The drivers in this tutorial are for Intel Matrix Storage Manager, I believe this is what you need. First download and install http://www.nliteos.com/download.html. (Requires .NET Framework 2.0, you’ve probably already got that, but if nLite won’t run, download the .NET Framework from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...cb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en) Now download and extract the slipstream drivers http://files.soulpass.com/acer/slipstream_drivers.zip to a folder like C:\Drivers-temp\ Insert your WinXP install disk, cancel out of the autorun if it pops up. Start up nLite, click next on the splash screen. Tell it where your CD is. It will ask you to tell it where to cache the files at. You can just use a folder like C:\XP-temp\ for that. On the “Presets” screen, click Next again. Now click on the “Drivers” button, as well as the “Bootable ISO” button, then click “Next” On the “Drivers” screen, click “Insert”, then “Multiple Driver Folder”. Point nLite to the location where you extracted the slipstream drivers, such as C:\Drivers-temp\ and then click OK. On the “Select multiple drivers to integrate” window you’ll need to highlight the path at the top (such as C:\Drivers-temp\) by clicking on it once, then click “OK”. On the “Driver Integration Options” window under “Textmode integration options” highlight the whole list by clicking once on the top item, then shift-clicking once on the bottom item. With that list still highlighted, click “OK” at the bottom. Back on the “Drivers” screen, click “Next”. The “Apply Changes:” dialog should pop up, asking if you really want to start the process. Click “Yes”. After the processing completes, you’ll need to click “Next”, at which point you’ll be taken to the final screen. On the “Bootable ISO” screen, change the “Mode” drop down menu from “Create Image” to “Direct Burn”. Eject your WinXP disk, and insert a blank disk into your burner. For safety’s sake, put a check mark next to “Verify”. Finally, click Burn. When its finished you can try installing XP from the newly burned disk. Hope this helps
First thing i would try is uninstalling nlite & .NET Framework 2.0 then reinstall .Net framework 2.0 then nlite. If that doesn't work, we will have to try another way. I gotta go out for a few hours but I'll get back to you when i get home. Edit: Do you have a floppy drive? Which sata controller do you have? (check in device manager)
i tried that and it still freezes and no i dont hav a floppy disk drive but for sum reason it thinks i do :/ is there anyway to get the drivers and just add them to the disk???
Which version of nlite did you install? was it the BETA version? If so uninstall it and install http://nlite.boot-land.net/nlite/old/nLite-1.4.1.installer.exe
There's plenty of articles on how to dual boot vista with vista installed first or vice versa,here's a link to get you started in putting xp after vista if you so decide,however i'm not sure if xp will install on a 64bit computer if xp is 32 bit http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp EDIT: There is another option if you have enough RAM & that's to install xp inside microsoft virtual pc software it's free & is compatible with vista,you can also run it from an external hdd & works ok ,have'nt tried on a DVD-RW yet but can't see why it would'nt,once the console is made you can easily back it up to media & use it in any other comp with MSVPC installed (after transferring from the media that is) http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/overview.mspx EDIT 2: Nlite won't install on vista coz it's not supported by it,it pays to read supported OS's,it's only for win 2000 & xp
yes i could do that but as i said my old disk has old drivers as they have said so i cant install xp aswell as vista if i cant run xp
Well i had the same problem with my pc i wanted to change from vista to xp i have a hp m9150f. What i did was go into setup went to advance to sata controller it said raid i press enter and change the raid to ide then press save. I then install xp with no problem. Thats all i did. Hope this will help.
alot of bios dont have that feature and others will say they are therfore already set to have sata on ..NOT TRUE ..ya gotta have the sata drivers and use f6
