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s9ann0 · 11-23-2007, 11:25 AM

My new laptop came with Vista and it went bad after a few weeks so I put XP on it, its bullshit free now.

My mum bought one and I tried to format it and install XP off the bat but it wasn't possible.

The reason was it had a SATA drive (laptop drives over 120gb) and my version of XP (it was media center 2005) doesn't have SATA support on the install program

So watch out for that if you are buying a machine you want to put XP on you can get it up on SATA but you need to load the SATA drivers from floppy and its going to be a real headache.

11-23-2007, 11:25 AM
s9ann0 Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Boston Posts: 4,873	My new laptop came with Vista and it went bad after a few weeks so I put XP on it, its bullshit free now. My mum bought one and I tried to format it and install XP off the bat but it wasn't possible. The reason was it had a SATA drive (laptop drives over 120gb) and my version of XP (it was media center 2005) doesn't have SATA support on the install program So watch out for that if you are buying a machine you want to put XP on you can get it up on SATA but you need to load the SATA drivers from floppy and its going to be a real headache.