Topic: Installing XP onto an NEC VERSA laptop (Read 439 times)

Aten

#1 December 24, 2009, 06:33:47 am
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So my sis has an NEC Versa s970 laptop which came with vista business edition. She wanted to install XP pro on in instead, but heres the problem. When I do it via the standard boot menu (press key to boot from CD bla bla bla) after it sets everything, it shows up with a problem, it says "There is no hard disk found, setup cannot continue". And if you do it via windows, the option to "intstall XP" is greyed out.

How do I go about doing this? Help!
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hobo2

#2 December 24, 2009, 09:05:28 am
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What kind of Windows XP disc are you using? Chances are, the laptop has a SATA hard drive and the Windows XP CD doesn't have SATA drivers. You will need a Windows XP SP2 or Windows XP SP3 disc to install to a SATA drive.
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Aten

#3 December 24, 2009, 10:21:28 am
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Yeah, I just figured that out a while ago. I am using a windows xp SP2 disc but it obviously doesn't have the 3rd party drivers (or there would be no problem) The problem now is that I'll have to find the actual sata drivers. Hopefully it might be included in the Driver CD that came with the laptop? Gotta wait till tomorrow in any case :\
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