downgrade to xp

dear all

i have oprating system vista business installed on notebook dell latitude
d830 i cannot install windows xp on it windows xp cannot detect hard disk
drive

what can i do

<abd.hameed@futuralabs.com> wrote in message
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> dear all
>
> i have oprating system vista business installed on notebook dell latitude
> d830 i cannot install windows xp on it windows xp cannot detect hard disk
> drive
>
> what can i do


I think that is happening because you are not giving the XP installer the
SATA drivers that it needs. If this is the case, you will need to find
these drivers for your laptop's chipset and put them on a floppy disk. Then
when installing XP, at some point you will be given the option to install
extra drivers by pressing F6. You then add the drivers on the floppy disk.
You will have to buy a USB floppy drive unless you already have one, and you
might have to go into the BIOS to enable legacy support for USB drivers.

Maybe sticking with Vista will be less hassle after all!

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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>> dear all
>>
>> i have oprating system vista business installed on notebook dell latitude
>> d830 i cannot install windows xp on it windows xp cannot detect hard disk
>> drive
>>
>> what can i do
>
>
> I think that is happening because you are not giving the XP installer the
> SATA drivers that it needs. If this is the case, you will need to find
> these drivers for your laptop's chipset and put them on a floppy disk.
> Then when installing XP, at some point you will be given the option to
> install extra drivers by pressing F6. You then add the drivers on the
> floppy disk. You will have to buy a USB floppy drive unless you already
> have one, and you might have to go into the BIOS to enable legacy support
> for USB drivers.
>
> Maybe sticking with Vista will be less hassle after all!


Oh look. I was just looking to see if I could find the required SATA
drivers, and it seems that somebody has already made XP discs with all the
drivers you need for your laptop. I do not know how legal this is, but it
is very handy:

http://www.recovery-cds.com/laptop/p...=any&PT_ID=all

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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>
> Oh look. I was just looking to see if I could find the required SATA
> drivers, and it seems that somebody has already made XP discs with all the
> drivers you need for your laptop. I do not know how legal this is, but it
> is very handy:
>
> http://www.recovery-cds.com/laptop/p...=any&PT_ID=all


Actually, I did not read that page properly. The disc appears to be a
collection of drivers, and is not an XP installation disc with the drivers
slipstreamed onto it, as I thought.

While it would be handy if you cannot source the drivers elsewhere (like the
Dell site), you will still need to do what I said in my first post to get XP
installed in the first place.

ss.

If it has SATA drives, you have to F6 the drivers shortly after it starts.
You should post for XP help in the XP groups, not Vista.

<abd.hameed@futuralabs.com> wrote in message
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> dear all
>
> i have oprating system vista business installed on notebook dell latitude
> d830 i cannot install windows xp on it windows xp cannot detect hard disk
> drive
>
> what can i do
>

Can you see the drive when you try to install XP and you can't delete it, or
does XP not see a drive at all?

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<abd.hameed@futuralabs.com> wrote in message
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> dear all
>
> i have oprating system vista business installed on notebook dell latitude
> d830 i cannot install windows xp on it windows xp cannot detect hard disk
> drive
>
> what can i do
>

If it's a SATA HDD issue, go into your BIOS and see if the HDD can't be set
to ATA compatibility. Once XP is installed, find the correct SATA drivers,
install them, reboot and go back into BIOS to change back to SATA HDD.

<abd.hameed@futuralabs.com> wrote in message
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> dear all
>
> i have oprating system vista business installed on notebook dell latitude
> d830 i cannot install windows xp on it windows xp cannot detect hard disk
> drive
>
> what can i do
>

"John" <me@myhome.net> wrote in message
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> If it's a SATA HDD issue, go into your BIOS and see if the HDD can't be
> set to ATA compatibility. Once XP is installed, find the correct SATA
> drivers, install them, reboot and go back into BIOS to change back to SATA
> HDD.


Oh yes, I forgot about that. The SATA mode he would be looking for might be
called something like IDE Legacy Mode.

ss.