Vista => XP

by overdrive • 23 Sep 2008, 15:16 • Journals
hey,

I got this new pc of a friend which runs vista. She really wants her old windowsxp back, so who am I to argue :P

Anyways. The SATA disk is not liking my attempts to install windowsXP. I did some quick googling and it seems I need to make a new windowsXP cd with sata drivers etc. Is there any easy way to install winXP on a sata drive?

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Viax 23 Sep 2008, 16:17
nice stealing sheep's title
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mama 23 Sep 2008, 16:18
stop dating non-nerdy girls
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rand0M 23 Sep 2008, 16:18
Shouldn't there already be SATA drivers, no matter what XP?

Best thing to do would be to download another version
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jnO 23 Sep 2008, 16:20
Yep should be.
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overdrive 23 Sep 2008, 16:23
plz explain to me what i got to do :P I'm still running an amd64, all these new technologies are too much to handle for this old man.

Can I just make a bootable USB, do i need some special install cd, whatever? Never worked with SATA before (well i have but never had any probs with it).
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rand0M 23 Sep 2008, 16:27
Easiest thing to do would be download another version. I'm running this one atm. http://www.mininova.org/get/1781961. SP3 intergrated, will have the SATA drivers.
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overdrive 23 Sep 2008, 16:30
tnx a lot m8 :P
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rand0M 23 Sep 2008, 16:32
Your welcome
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ZeD 23 Sep 2008, 17:27
hi junky
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rand0M 23 Sep 2008, 18:15
I am not "junky"
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vectra 23 Sep 2008, 16:19
i don't know man.
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sCope 23 Sep 2008, 16:24
vista sux
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Gabt 23 Sep 2008, 16:27
My stupid-ometre almost exploded.
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JALLAAAAAA 23 Sep 2008, 16:28
SATA is just a faster hdd... IDE slower :(
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duumed 23 Sep 2008, 16:37
SATA is not an HDD type
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Gabt 23 Sep 2008, 16:40
Its a type of connection, since the guy above didnt mind telling you, you were wrong, but didnt correct you.
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IntuQk 23 Sep 2008, 16:36
or just wait for 2009 Vista will get an enw version whit lesser/none probs whit gaming it should be better then XP then
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vectra 23 Sep 2008, 16:41
lesser/none probs whit gaming? what kind of problems is in this current vista then?
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loctarar 23 Sep 2008, 17:20
New Windows 7 Paint:
image: 2862818349_638798451d_o

It will look just like Vista but the code will be rewritten. What people hope = less memory consumption and optimized code.
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vectra 23 Sep 2008, 17:43
any info when it comes out? in stores
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loctarar 23 Sep 2008, 19:00
I heard that there will soon be avi some alfa / beta versions. Can't tell for sure how "soon" that will be. Probably this winter.
When will it be finished... nobody can tell :), not even the developers. My guess it is that it will take a few years until Vista sucks all the money it can get.
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LethalChicken 23 Sep 2008, 17:43
API function for example
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vectra 23 Sep 2008, 17:53
what does that mean? tell me tell me
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LethalChicken 23 Sep 2008, 19:54
dunno you just randomly get kicked for missing api function :|. never found a solution for it. eventually i could play with ~10 fps in etpro, couldn't talk on vent and had to reconnect after every map :/.
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OfficerCohen 23 Sep 2008, 16:37
hihi
bye bye you suck ass
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TosspoT 23 Sep 2008, 16:41
You need to go into the bios and change the harddrive setting to slow it down, each bios lists it differently but there will be a clear section that has a feature on the HDD that you can either enable or disable it, disable it. Then you can install XP, install the drivers and then reenable the SATA function. I have the same on my laptop and we had the same problem on the PB Machines at CDC4
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loctarar 23 Sep 2008, 17:26
Are you sure you're not talking about IDE emulation over the SATA controllers?
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Kiewan 23 Sep 2008, 17:27
(c) Ronner :D
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Dreamweaver 23 Sep 2008, 17:41
so, will I encounter the same problem with my soon-to-arrive vostro 1700 while trying to install XP on it? :-)
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TosspoT 23 Sep 2008, 17:47
Ive got the vostro 1510 and the answer is yes
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overdrive 23 Sep 2008, 17:51
Thanks for the reply. I found some more ppl sayign i needed to change some hd settings, but i couldnt find many options in the bios. I did find the usual HDD settings, i'll have a closer look tomorrow :P
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loctarar 23 Sep 2008, 18:57
Check this out also:
Quote by wikiwikiIf AHCI is not enabled by the motherboard and chipset, SATA controllers typically operate in "IDE emulation" mode which does not allow features of devices to be accessed that are not supported by the ATA/IDE standard. Windows device drivers that are labeled as SATA are usually running in IDE emulation mode unless they explicitly state that they are AHCI.


So all you have to do is to find a way to put the SATA drive under IDE emulation which is very old interface and there is surley a driver on the Windows CD for it.
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LethalChicken 23 Sep 2008, 17:43
google


http://www.wisegeek.com/whats-involved-in-switching-a-laptop-from-vista-to-xp.htm
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overdrive 23 Sep 2008, 17:52
theres alot of links about laptops and vista :P But thanks for the great link.
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kRONE 23 Sep 2008, 17:58
wiesiekgeek.com?
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