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Acer Aspire 3690,Vista Home Basic, 1.5G

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  • 21-01-2008 8:39pm
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    Gary Toolan
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    On top of the usual Vista gripes, I'm recently having problems with Windows installer freezing (I've been playing with lots of old XP software in recent weeks, which I suspect may be the problem). Being an Acer, I've no system discs (separate system partition), so I cant just reinstall "Installer".

    I do have XP Pro.........................much as I'd love to install it, do I really need all the driver hassle?
    Anyone else had any similar problems? Any info or advice would be appreciated.
    Gary


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    majiktripp
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    You might not be able to install XP Pro (not easily anyways) if you have a SATA hard drive in the laptop. Again had a machine in with similar issues to yours, they wanted XP on it and had bought a legitimate license for it but because it was a SATA drive and the laptop manufacturers hadn't released the hard drive controllers drivers to allow an XP install there wasn't anything I could do but do a clean vista install (which picked up the hard drive straight away).
    You could try doing a "repair" of Vista via the system restore options (at least check if repair IS an option first).


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    TPD
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    Agh just ordered a laptop with vista and a sata hard drive, you mean I wont be able to put XP on it either?


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    majiktripp
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    Sometimes Windows XP SP2 can detect SATA drives if there using a common enough chipset on the motherboard, however newer machines using vista which has the inbuilt facility to detect sata drives mean that manufacturers aren't putting the required XP install drivers up on their websites, so it would be a case of finding out what chipset is on the laptop then trying to find the appropriate sata drivers so that when your doing an XP install you can hit that magic F6 key to load drivers from an alternate location thus allowing XP to detect the sata drive.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    I remember someone was having a problem trying to install xp on their laptop. When they put in the xp disk it wouldn't find their hard drive. Would this be the same thing you are describing majiktripp? If so, there was a fairly easy fix for it. All you had to do was change a setting in the bios.

    Edit: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=54520978


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    majiktripp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Thanks for that Almighty,page now favourited! Will keep handy just in case it does resolve issue.


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