The acers hard drive *

[djeraser2]

the old (hitachi - hdd was with an Acer aspire tho still unsure of bios or where to look for that !,it was with this intel celeron cpu 550@2.00Ghz 2.00Ghz memory 1Gb system type:32 -bit operating system vista service pack 2 this all failed in an 5315 the hard drive loaded but everything would fail or just slow itself to a blunt repetitve stop.,so on replacing it with samsung i need to know why i cant change the operating windows from vista to xp with a setup disc i iso . replacing the hdd is fine and the setup works but after a few minutes of loading files it sais it cant find hard drive at all . though, i know when i enter setup it sais 500gb hard drive !HeLp pls the os is not recognising this new hard drive so ...i can tell when the find is true because the hard drive(external) i tried is found and will allow the installation, tho, this finds me to want a partition i know i wont format the hard drive(external) so...it looks like the BIOS is not supportive!ahh will take it to cex where i bought it but thanx for your help emerald

 

[PudgyChicken]

Please reform your original post into a cohesive thought. It's difficult to understand what the heck you're asking when you seem to have no clue how to use proper punctuation. From what I gather, you're having issues with Windows XP Setup not seeing your hard drive part way through installation. I believe you may need to set your hard drive to IDE mode instead of AHCI (if it's a SATA drive, that is). To do this you need to look through your BIOS settings. If you're unsure about how to do this, google "Acer (model number) user manual" or just go to the Acer site and get the manual. It should give you directions for how to get into the BIOS.

Hope that helps some.

 

[djeraser2]

cohesive? COHERANT AND NO I NOW HELPED .