Hi i recently got a laptop and there woz no disc with it it had windows 7 on it but i formatted the laptop to put windows xp prof on it.when i put the xp cd in and booted it i went through sum things i got to setup formatting the partition got to 35% then the laptop goes off this has happend twice now can anyone tell me why plz? I really need help plz as i dont know wot to do.also unsure as to y my outher comment woz taken off so if this 1 is can u tell me why plz.thanx
trouble installing xp from fresh
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Ok so what you need to do is go into the bios and change the SATA operation mode from AHCI to IDE or legacy. This is because windows 7 comes with AHCI drivers in the OS, where to use a SATA drive in ACHI operation mode, you have to have the drivers on a usb or floppy and hit f6 to load drivers before installing, so instead of searching and doing all that work to inject those drivers into the install, just switch the SATA operation mode and you will be installed in no time. For windows XP, the difference between the two operation modes is negligible. No harm done in switching.
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