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Trying to downgrade Windows 7 to XP
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bevan840
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Hi
We installed Windows 7 on DH's lappy a few months ago as couldn't find the XP disc. We have found a disc, it's not the original one that was used on the lappy, but I had one before I upgraded to Windows 7.
I've tried to put Windows XP on and it won't go far as it says that Setup did not find and hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Any idea's on how to fix this as DH can't use his lappy to watch DVD's as it thinks my Windows 7 is not genuine, when it is but probably only meant to be on 1 machine
We installed Windows 7 on DH's lappy a few months ago as couldn't find the XP disc. We have found a disc, it's not the original one that was used on the lappy, but I had one before I upgraded to Windows 7.
I've tried to put Windows XP on and it won't go far as it says that Setup did not find and hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Any idea's on how to fix this as DH can't use his lappy to watch DVD's as it thinks my Windows 7 is not genuine, when it is but probably only meant to be on 1 machine
:idea: Jan 09. Debt @ LBM - £11936.55 Debt at worst - £12600.55 Current Debt (01/03/2012) £8,859.51 29.7% Paid off
Honeymoon Fund £410.40/£6000 House Deposit £1.50
:A Proud to be dealing with my debts. DFW Nerd 1177 :A
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your laptop has a SATA hard drive and XP doesnt support that nativly
you will need to go into the BIOS of the laptop (press DEL or F2 normally)
and change the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE0 -
I've downloaded the driver required for the hard drive, but the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive and I don't have any floppy discs. Any idea's?:idea: Jan 09. Debt @ LBM - £11936.55 Debt at worst - £12600.55 Current Debt (01/03/2012) £8,859.51 29.7% Paid offHoneymoon Fund £410.40/£6000 House Deposit £1.50:A Proud to be dealing with my debts. DFW Nerd 1177 :A0
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It was XP installed on it before, but we had to do a complete reformat as DH had let virus' into his computer as he didn't do the scans to remove them:idea: Jan 09. Debt @ LBM - £11936.55 Debt at worst - £12600.55 Current Debt (01/03/2012) £8,859.51 29.7% Paid offHoneymoon Fund £410.40/£6000 House Deposit £1.50:A Proud to be dealing with my debts. DFW Nerd 1177 :A0
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Chances are that was with the original XP disc from the manufacturer which would have either been a hard drive image or had the SATA driver slipstreamed into the installation. As you've been told, go into the BIOS and set the SATA mode from AHCI to Compatible or whatever option it has.0
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mongoose2009 wrote: »and change the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE
Is this bit as easy as it sounds?:idea: Jan 09. Debt @ LBM - £11936.55 Debt at worst - £12600.55 Current Debt (01/03/2012) £8,859.51 29.7% Paid offHoneymoon Fund £410.40/£6000 House Deposit £1.50:A Proud to be dealing with my debts. DFW Nerd 1177 :A0 -
Delete and F2 are doing nothing:idea: Jan 09. Debt @ LBM - £11936.55 Debt at worst - £12600.55 Current Debt (01/03/2012) £8,859.51 29.7% Paid offHoneymoon Fund £410.40/£6000 House Deposit £1.50:A Proud to be dealing with my debts. DFW Nerd 1177 :A0
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I think I've got it working now, thanks guys for your help
:idea: Jan 09. Debt @ LBM - £11936.55 Debt at worst - £12600.55 Current Debt (01/03/2012) £8,859.51 29.7% Paid offHoneymoon Fund £410.40/£6000 House Deposit £1.50:A Proud to be dealing with my debts. DFW Nerd 1177 :A0 -
All done, just need to install the drivers from the website now. Thank you for your help and advce I won't be getting nagged from now on hopefully!! :idea: Jan 09. Debt @ LBM - £11936.55 Debt at worst - £12600.55 Current Debt (01/03/2012) £8,859.51 29.7% Paid offHoneymoon Fund £410.40/£6000 House Deposit £1.50:A Proud to be dealing with my debts. DFW Nerd 1177 :A0
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Quick question, why downgrade to an old insecure OS?0
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Quick question, why downgrade to an old insecure OS?
'coz XP is a nice OS? OP feels comfy with XP? they have a COA for XP but not for 7? a.n.other reason the OP has?
must admit, I don't get people XP bashing, it's a decent OS. Now if it was Vista...........;)
......Gettin' There, Wherever There is......
I have a dodgy "i" key, so ignore spelling errors due to "i" issues, ...I blame Apple0
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