Moving from 7 RC to XP MCE

Ok... i'm putting together a frankenstein PC for my wife, it's an old Athlon 64 3500+ w/ 3 gbs of RAM

First, I was trying to install XP MCE on it, but I had no luck... basically I guess the issue is with XP not having AMD drivers for the SATA HD, and I don't have a floppy drive to F6 the drivers on... I tried d/l'ing the drivers and using nlite to slipstream them into to the install, but I couldn't get it to work.

Yesterday I installed Windows 7 RC on it to give it a whirl, and it just seems wayyyyy slow! I was wondering, if I used my XP MCE disc now and installed it over the current RC 7 install, would I still have the driver problem, or will the XP MCE install carry over the drivers from the RC 7??

Hope that made sense,

THANKS!

John...

does your bios have an option for native ide mode for the sata ports?

enable it

xp will install

then the next option is to install a floppy . You could open the case and install it temporarily

most computer shops would be giving away used floppy drives . Download the drivers and work out where f6 is ;-)

I don't think that would work. Drivers depend on the O/S, and I doubt that Windows 7 drivers are any good under XP.

In my experience, Windows 7 runs just as fast as XP. I don't think you're going to notice much performance increase going to XP. I'm sure I'll get jumped for saying it, but oh well!

you cant install any older version over a newer version of windows

which is why you need the floppy or to sort out why RC7 is so slow for you . Did you use an old hard drive?