Help going from Vista to XP?
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Re: vista to xp
I assume you mean you tried to load xp afterwards on a separate partition as a dual boot system. Normally you woud load XP first and let the Vista bootloader take control after loading that..
In this situation when you cannot see the hard drive on boot up, boot from the Vista DVD ( if you have it) and choose "start up repair" from the repair option menu to re establish the Vista bootloader and see the option to boot to either system
I cant think that you mean you formatted ,deleting Vista and then installed XP .
Although also SATA drivers can be an issue as AZ mentioned.
I assume you mean you tried to load xp afterwards on a separate partition as a dual boot system. Normally you woud load XP first and let the Vista bootloader take control after loading that..
In this situation when you cannot see the hard drive on boot up, boot from the Vista DVD ( if you have it) and choose "start up repair" from the repair option menu to re establish the Vista bootloader and see the option to boot to either system
I cant think that you mean you formatted ,deleting Vista and then installed XP .
Although also SATA drivers can be an issue as AZ mentioned.
help please
I have mucked up my work laptop by thinking i could convert vista to xp by myself, driver issues and software issues is the reason. I have purchased a xp licence and have the disc. My laptop is a satelitte p200-iee. I have downloaded what i thought was the sata drivers (f6flp32) put in the xp disc and the drivers as above on a floppy drive it goes though the loading ask you to press s and then comes up with txt setup-oem could not be found. Any ideas of what i can do i need my laptop for work monday morning HELP please.
I have posted in other section but didnt no if it was the right section
I have mucked up my work laptop by thinking i could convert vista to xp by myself, driver issues and software issues is the reason. I have purchased a xp licence and have the disc. My laptop is a satelitte p200-iee. I have downloaded what i thought was the sata drivers (f6flp32) put in the xp disc and the drivers as above on a floppy drive it goes though the loading ask you to press s and then comes up with txt setup-oem could not be found. Any ideas of what i can do i need my laptop for work monday morning HELP please.
I have posted in other section but didnt no if it was the right section
just found your laptop on the site but there is no sata driver there, what you could do is get the latest intel chipset drivers and extract them to the hard drive and see if you can put them onto a floppy or usb key if your system will see it at boot and point xp to that device, although i have never had xp give me any problems on a install where sata was the main disc, normaly it should just install with generic drivers and then you install latest ones afterwards
In the BIOS setup see if you have the option to change the HDD interface from AHCI to an alternative, normally "IDE" mode or sometimes legacy mode.
This makes the drive interface visible to the text mode setup and has little effect to the performance in Windows although some options are lost at a technical level. Once Windows is installed, drivers added and patched up you can then try switching it back to AHCI mode if you want, my own experience with that stage is sometimes it works sometimes not. If it doesn't then I just leave it in IDE mode
taken from here :
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=111355
This makes the drive interface visible to the text mode setup and has little effect to the performance in Windows although some options are lost at a technical level. Once Windows is installed, drivers added and patched up you can then try switching it back to AHCI mode if you want, my own experience with that stage is sometimes it works sometimes not. If it doesn't then I just leave it in IDE mode
taken from here :
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=111355
Another option might be this :
I had the same problem...
Try to use NLite
With this free tool you can create a custom XP installation disk (ofcourse you need a working pc to run this tool....).
It images your xp-cd and you have the option to add drivers. the drivers you need to add for the xp installation to work are in the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager-7.5.0.1017" zip link
I used the drivers in the ICH8M_32bit directory.
also from the above mentioned site ...
Good luck
If I were you I would go over that Toshiba site with a fine tooth comb seems then answer might be over there ..
I had the same problem...
Try to use NLite
With this free tool you can create a custom XP installation disk (ofcourse you need a working pc to run this tool....).
It images your xp-cd and you have the option to add drivers. the drivers you need to add for the xp installation to work are in the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager-7.5.0.1017" zip link
I used the drivers in the ICH8M_32bit directory.
also from the above mentioned site ...
Good luck
If I were you I would go over that Toshiba site with a fine tooth comb seems then answer might be over there ..
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