xp sata driver problem

[mladen76]

does enyone have some solution for instaling xp on laptop vhit sata hard disc or heve some link where I can get xp whit sata drivers,my laptop is compaq CQ61
THANKS.

[cunny]

You will need to patch the version of xp with the compatable sata drivers.

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1236890.htm

[varmab]

You will need to integrate the Sata drivers in windows xp disc and windows XP CD.

No F2 function or DEL function will do the trick. You will need a second PC to make the disk

1) Download NLITE from the web nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation - Download

2) Visit HP.com and locate the drivers you require for the SATA Hard Drives

3) Install NLITE

Now copy your windows XP disk to a folder on the PC you will use to make the disk.

4) Open Nlite

follow the prompts as you require

at the end it will ask you if you want to "integrate drivers" click on this button and locate the drivers you downloaded

( I know with my CQ 61 there was 2 versions and i had to make about 5 disks before it worked)

REMEMBER TO SELECT THE OPTION TO MAKE THE DISK BOOTABLE

you can add as many drivers to the setup as you like

Hope that helps

[mladen76]

thanks for the detailed answer,I found something like that when I was searching the solution,but the bigest problem was to find sata/raid drivers,I will try and if it doesnt work I will yust have to stay in window 7 whit virtual xp mode.
What do you think about virtual xp mode,it allready chrashd once so I had to instal it agaim....

[varmab]

thanks for the detailed answer,I found something like that when I was searching the solution,but the bigest problem was to find sata/raid drivers,I will try and if it doesnt work I will yust have to stay in window 7 whit virtual xp mode.
What do you think about virtual xp mode,it allready chrashd once so I had to instal it agaim....

what hardware do you have m8? Virtual xp mode is very stable, strange your crashed. have you installed the patches for Virtual PC.. if not that might be the problem. Got several WIN7 64bit pcs working fine with XP mode. I recommend you to do a full windows update.

[mladen76]

I have AMD TURION DUAL CORE M 520 2.3GH,3 GIGABYT RAM DDR2,320 HDD AND WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE 32bit-
But nothing is original so I cant update from microsoft
I found xp mode on demonoid and I instaled some updates before virtual mode as said in turtorial-

[varmab]

I have AMD TURION DUAL CORE M 520 2.3GH,3 GIGABYT RAM DDR2,320 HDD AND WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE 32bit-
But nothing is original so I cant update from microsoft
I found xp mode on demonoid and I instaled some updates before virtual mode as said in turtorial-

Is your Windows 7 ultimate stable on your pc? i have had quite few bad experiences with AMD Turion. if you have the event log from the crash of the virtual xp, i might have a look at it.
Try the xp mode update from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

Do let me know what the results.

[Sirus]

I'm also looking xp on my pc(using Win 7 ult at the min)

Can this be done by getting a Win xp iso then inserting the driver into it, then putting the iso onto a usb thumstick and installing from that?

My pc is all highend xp spec, and I'm fed up with games not installing or running properly in Win 7.. I was under the illusion only a floppy drive could do this, guess I'll try it these ways then

[varmab]

I'm also looking xp on my pc(using Win 7 ult at the min)

Can this be done by getting a Win xp iso then inserting the driver into it, then putting the iso onto a usb thumstick and installing from that?

My pc is all highend xp spec, and I'm fed up with games not installing or running properly in Win 7.. I was under the illusion only a floppy drive could do this, guess I'll try it these ways then

Go for Xp mode my friend http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

enjoy

[mladen76]

So fare my windows 7 is very stable whit Amd turion and I dont have event log from the chras. maybe I did something wrong and maybe there was a way to fix xp mode but it was easyer for me to make a clean instl.

[varmab]

So fare my windows 7 is very stable whit Amd turion and I dont have event log from the chras. maybe I did something wrong and maybe there was a way to fix xp mode but it was easyer for me to make a clean instl.

yeah, try a clean installation m8

[Sirus]

Go for Xp mode my friend http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

enjoy

Though, to get xp mode in Win 7 your processor must support "virtualization"... which my old P4 doesn't

Also I'm not a big fan of running an OS within an OS... I'd much rather have a native booting XP

As well as the extra resources the pc needs for Win 7 and stuff...

And funnily enough, I'm only using Win 7 because I had this exact problem around Christmas with getting XP onto my sata HD too

Win 7 ult is fast on my old pc, but it's starting to slow down a bit.. and most of all, my games either wont install (yes Ive tried to run in xp compadibility mode).. and the ones that install BSOD when exiting out of them, and my older games like Farcry install ok and main menu and opening sequence plays, but then when the game loads to play its just a complete white foggy screen like some sort of graphical glitch... so -I've had it up to here- with win 7 and games, just want my old xp back

All the said games worked flawlessly on my xp, before I got the new sata drive

And also having trouble unraring files, which unrar fine on my older xp machine... just completely fed up with Win 7

[varmab]

Though, to get xp mode in Win 7 your processor must support "virtualization"... which my old P4 doesn't

Also I'm not a big fan of running an OS within an OS... I'd much rather have a native booting XP

As well as the extra resources the pc needs for Win 7 and stuff...

And funnily enough, I'm only using Win 7 because I had this exact problem around Christmas with getting XP onto my sata HD too

Win 7 ult is fast on my old pc, but it's starting to slow down a bit.. and most of all, my games either wont install (yes Ive tried to run in xp compadibility mode).. and the ones that install BSOD when exiting out of them, and my older games like Farcry install ok and main menu and opening sequence plays, but then when the game loads to play its just a complete white foggy screen like some sort of graphical glitch... so -I've had it up to here- with win 7 and games, just want my old xp back

All the said games worked flawlessly on my xp, before I got the new sata drive

And also having trouble unraring files, which unrar fine on my older xp machine... just completely fed up with Win 7

You can install dual boot system WIN7 and WINXP on separate partitions, for gaming you go on WINXP. However if you still having problems with the WIN7 and old hardware, then a complete WINXP installation is strongly recommended. WIN7 is very demanding in terms of memory and processor power. If you lack hardware power, then do revert back to windows xp who has proven game ability.

[studentt]

I just wanted to add that when I was installing Win XP on my PC, I needed to install SATA drivers from floppy during system installation.

[ManofScience]

Look into the BIOS, look for the chipset settings and look for SATA controller, see if oyu can change it to 'IDE or Legacy' - it'll then think it's a normal IDE Controller with hard attached.