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Solve : How do i get vista off my sata drive??

Answer» <html><body><p>I have an Acer Aspire 5315-2290 Laptop with the following specs.:<br/><br/>CPU: Celeron 550 (2.0 GHz/1m)<br/>LCD: 15.4 wxga Acer Crystalbrite<br/>Memory: 1024 MB DDR2<br/>HDD: 120 GB<br/>Optical Drive: DVD super Multi Double layer<br/>Modem: 56K<br/>Lan: 10/100<br/>Wireless Lan: 802.11b/g<br/><br/>OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1<br/>WWAN: No<br/><br/>The machine has a SATA <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hard-1015537" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HARD">HARD</a> disk, how do i get Vista off so i can install XP<br/><br/>Pleeeeeeeese <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/help-239643" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HELP">HELP</a>, I have no purpose for Vista.get the xp cd put it in and boot from it make shure to delete the partition follow these steps  <a href="https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic53502.html">http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic53502.html</a>I  boot from the xp cd and follow the usual steps but before i get to the part where your given the option to delete the partition the computer displays a message saying (not the exact same <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/words-25841" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WORDS">WORDS</a>) no hard drive detected.<br/><br/>My guess is  that the xp cd was designed to work with ide drives and the laptop has a sata drive so that may be why i get the error mesage.Strongly suggest that you make sure that you have all of the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/necessary-1112675" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NECESSARY">NECESSARY</a> drivers for XP before removing Vista.<br/><br/>Good Luck!Not true I have a gaming pc that uses such drives an have xp installed on to it.  what you probably need to do is disconnect an reconnect the drives. Quote from: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 06:03:35 PM</p><blockquote>Not true I have a gaming pc that uses such drives an have xp installed on to it.  what you probably need to do is disconnect an reconnect the drives.<br/></blockquote> <br/>Not sure if this is a reference to my post or not; I'm not referring to SATA drivers, but, rather, chipset drivers, onboard video drivers, LAN drivers, etc. I am assuming from the original post that he wants to replace the Vista OS with XP, often XP drivers are not <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/available-888895" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AVAILABLE">AVAILABLE</a> for Vista pre-loaded machines. Quote from: TANGFIRMER on July 03, 2008, 05:51:06 PM<blockquote>I  boot from the xp cd and follow the usual steps but before i get to the part where your given the option to delete the partition the computer displays a message saying (not the exact same words) no hard drive detected.<br/><br/>My guess is  that the xp cd was designed to work with ide drives and the laptop has a sata drive so that may be why i get the error mesage.<br/></blockquote> <br/>His post Quote from: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 06:29:39 PM<blockquote>His post<br/></blockquote> <br/>Got it - and you are perfectly correct; but XP doesn't have native support for SATA drives, he'll need to load SATA drivers when Setup asks for them.I never had too. Quote from: squall_01 on July 03, 2008, 06:42:11 PM<blockquote>I never had too.<br/></blockquote> <br/>OK.But these where maxtor drives, so that mite be the reason. Quote from: squall_01 on July 04, 2008, 04:43:46 AM<blockquote>But these where maxtor drives, so that mite be the reason.<br/></blockquote> <br/>This makes no sense whatsoever.Tangfirmer...very early on in the setup process you will see a message at the bottom of the screen saying "Press F6 to install RAID/SATA drivers"  do so and then insert the laptops Driver CD and hit Enter.If there a laptop drives yes, however I was meaning desktop.  They dont pay me enough to do this stuff. Quote from: squall_01 on July 04, 2008, 08:39:30 AM<blockquote>If there a laptop drives yes, however I was meaning desktop.  <br/></blockquote> <br/>Irrelevant.</body></html>


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