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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:01 AM
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New PC preloaded with vista home premium.

Hi I have a pre loaded new laptop with vista home premium. I wanted to go back to xp (please don't ask me to stay with vista), so I formatted the HD, and tried to boot to xp. It didn't work. It said like bad media, try reconnecting cables. Well, I know for a fact my XP disc isn't falty, ive booted of it on another computer. Is my computer just not compatable with xp? Thanks,

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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:31 AM
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Where'd you get the XP cd? If it's OEM, meaning it came installed on a different computer and you're trying to install it on this computer, it won't work.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:47 AM
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I bought it at Best buy. It's not OEM, I've installed it on multiple pc's.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:50 AM
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Hi,
welcome to CTH.

IF you know what controller the laptop uses to access the hard disk, you could slipstream the driver into a copy of your XP CD with Nlite and then make an ISO, which you can then burn. Setup will then have the drivers for txtmode on CD..
(I am assuming the laptop came without floppy)

If you want to go the whole mile, and want to integrate more than that single driver, you could just as well use driverpacks.net's driverpacks, integrate those with their utility, and then make an ISO to burn to DVD.
Here is a tut.
http://users.*******.be/jtdoom/basetute/Eng_tut6b.htm
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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:51 AM
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uh oh..
Quote:
I've installed it on multiple pc's.
Uh oh.
(this sounds "iffy".)

case closed

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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:53 AM
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Wait... you installed it on multiple pc's. That's a problem. It can be running on only one machine at any given time.... even if it isn't OEM....
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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:56 AM
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thanks for the quick response. I would install it on one computer, and than when i needed a new computer, i erased the old one, and installed it on the new one. I didn't install it on multiple ones at the same time. All these computers were bought by me, not installed on other people's computers.

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Old April 25th, 2008, 02:05 AM
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i actually don't know what jtdoom was talking about in post 4....

what process do you follow when you're trying to boot to the cd?
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Old April 25th, 2008, 02:07 AM
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I would pop in the disc, restart, hold the c key. that didn't work, so i pressed f8, which took me to the boot menu. I than clicked on the dvd drive. That didn't work either.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 02:12 AM
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XP setup did not find the hard disk.
It needs txtmode drivers for the controller. (you normally have to hit F6 to load those)

if you have no access to drivers (USB floppy drive might work, or anything XP can access when it asks for the driver location.), then the other solution is to integrate the drivers into the CD or DVD.
That was what post 4 was about.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 03:11 AM
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Yeah I got to the xp setup. I'll give nlite a shot and see if it works.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 03:20 AM
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I hope you know which driver you need for the controller.

integrating ONE driver from a download you had to search for, or integrate about a hundred (with HIGH probability it has the one that works on the laptop) makes a difference.

I should say that I would use driverpacks, because it can also integrate sound, graphics, lan, wireless, chipset, and if you go on a download splurge in "third party" (which are useful but not vital), modems, TVcards, some fingerprint readers, and so on.

that tut I wrote should make it obvious I offered a helping hand over there.
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Old May 5th, 2008, 01:25 AM
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Ok I just integrated SATA/RAID drivers into the disc. I popped in the xp disc, booted up, but still no hard drive is detected. I think my computer just doesn't support XP, and can't run it
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Old May 5th, 2008, 04:29 AM
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Hi,
when you use nLite it asks if this is txtmode or pnp and you need txtmode for hard disk access.

dpsBase and mass storage driverpack. This pack can be added for pnp, but txtmode is required for access to hard disk.
When you boot the CD, compare what you see fly by with what you see when you use original, because when you used mass storage driverpack TxTmode you would see an extra cartload of drivers zoom by.
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Old May 5th, 2008, 02:21 PM
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yeah i did txt mode, and integrated a ton of driver packs mass storage. still no luck. and yea i saw a ton of new drivers at the bottom of the screen, but it still can't find hd.
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