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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
Hello. When I try to install xp next to the current vista installation, and I boot the xp cd, it says it can't recognize the disk. I've googled a bit and found out I probably need a sata driver for xp. I can't find it however at the acer website. Does anyone know where to obtain suitable drivers for the sata disk so xp will be able to recognize it? Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help, Niek |
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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
On 26 jan, 18:45, sobriquet wrote:
Hello. When I try to install xp next to the current vista installation, and I boot the xp cd, it says it can't recognize the disk. I've googled a bit and found out I probably need a sata driver for xp. I can't find it however at the acer website. Does anyone know where to obtain suitable drivers for the sata disk so xp will be able to recognize it? Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help, Niek I think I found it... but I'm not sure... http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filt...&submit=Los%21 (same as http://tinyurl.com/36ghoh ) If anyone thinks this is wrong or knows a more appropriate version I'd love to hear about it. Presumably, I can switch Sata mode from AHCI to IDE, install xp, install the sata driver and switch back from IDE to AHCI to avoid the more complicated approach of slipstreaming the driver into a newly compiled xp cd. Will report back if everything goes as planned. |
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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
you shouldnt have to have a sata driver.xp has it.
"sobriquet" wrote in message ... On 26 jan, 18:45, sobriquet wrote: Hello. When I try to install xp next to the current vista installation, and I boot the xp cd, it says it can't recognize the disk. I've googled a bit and found out I probably need a sata driver for xp. I can't find it however at the acer website. Does anyone know where to obtain suitable drivers for the sata disk so xp will be able to recognize it? Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help, Niek I think I found it... but I'm not sure... http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filt...&submit=Los%21 (same as http://tinyurl.com/36ghoh ) If anyone thinks this is wrong or knows a more appropriate version I'd love to hear about it. Presumably, I can switch Sata mode from AHCI to IDE, install xp, install the sata driver and switch back from IDE to AHCI to avoid the more complicated approach of slipstreaming the driver into a newly compiled xp cd. Will report back if everything goes as planned. |
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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
On 26 jan, 19:40, "doS" wrote:
you shouldnt have to have a sata driver.xp has it. I'm fairly sure it doesn't. I've found many people out there online on discussion forums and they all encountered this problem when they try to downgrade from vista to xp or add an xp installation to a vista computer (on a separate partition). |
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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
On 26 jan, 23:01, Ralph2 wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:45:00 -0800 (PST), sobriquet wrote: Hello. When I try to install xp next to the current vista installation, and I boot the xp cd, it says it can't recognize the disk. I've googled a bit and found out I probably need a sata driver for xp. I can't find it however at the acer website. Does anyone know where to obtain suitable drivers for the sata disk so xp will be able to recognize it? Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help, Niek I think you are approaching the wrong problem. Windows XP overwrites the *Vista boot record and thus screws itself up. . Have a read from this link...http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp Ralph Yeah I know. That's the method I use. Previously it worked ok on a dell laptop, but it has a scsi disk. With a sata disk like in the acer, it's more complicated. One method is switching from AHCI to IDE in the bios, install xp, install the sata driver and switch it back to AHCI. The other method is slipstreaming the drivers into the xp installation disk (loading the drivers during setup with F6 is complicated when you have no floppy drive available). |
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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
On 27 jan, 04:19, sobriquet wrote:
On 26 jan, 23:01, Ralph2 wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:45:00 -0800 (PST), sobriquet wrote: Hello. When I try to install xp next to the current vista installation, and I boot the xp cd, it says it can't recognize the disk. I've googled a bit and found out I probably need a sata driver for xp. I can't find it however at the acer website. Does anyone know where to obtain suitable drivers for the sata disk so xp will be able to recognize it? Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help, Niek I think you are approaching the wrong problem. Windows XP overwrites the *Vista boot record and thus screws itself up. . Have a read from this link...http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp Ralph Yeah I know. That's the method I use. Previously it worked ok on a dell laptop, but it has a scsi disk. With a sata disk like in the acer, it's more complicated. One method is switching from AHCI to IDE in the bios, install xp, install the sata driver and switch it back to AHCI. The other method is slipstreaming the drivers into the xp installation disk (loading the drivers during setup with F6 is complicated when you have no floppy drive available).- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven - - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven - Update... the method to switch from AHCI to IDE and back failed miserably. I couldn't find a driver that would install under xp. Then I tried slipstreaming the aforementioned driver in this thread with nLite and that works wonderfully. So I can just keep the sata mode set to AHCI and install xp with the drivers slipstreamed into the installation cd. Now the next step (see other thread about specifications) is to obtain all suitable drivers for xp. |
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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
sobriquet;786655 Wrote: On 27 jan, 04:19, sobriquet wrote:- On 26 jan, 23:01, Ralph2 wrote: - On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:45:00 -0800 (PST), sobriquet- - wrote:- -- Hello.-- -- When I try to install xp next to the current vista installation, and I boot the xp cd, it says it can't recognize the disk. I've googled a bit and found out I probably need a sata driver for xp. I can't find it however at the acer website. Does anyone know where to obtain suitable drivers for the sata disk so xp will be able to recognize it?-- -- Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help, Niek-- - I think you are approaching the wrong problem. Windows XP overwrites the Vista boot record and thus screws itself up. . Have a read from this link...http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp- - Ralph- Yeah I know. That's the method I use. Previously it worked ok on a dell laptop, but it has a scsi disk. With a sata disk like in the acer, it's more complicated. One method is switching from AHCI to IDE in the bios, install xp, install the sata driver and switch it back to AHCI. The other method is slipstreaming the drivers into the xp installation disk (loading the drivers during setup with F6 is complicated when you have no floppy drive available).- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven - - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -- Update... the method to switch from AHCI to IDE and back failed miserably. I couldn't find a driver that would install under xp. Then I tried slipstreaming the aforementioned driver in this thread with nLite and that works wonderfully. So I can just keep the sata mode set to AHCI and install xp with the drivers slipstreamed into the installation cd. Now the next step (see other thread about specifications) is to obtain all suitable drivers for xp. Hi, I created a splipstreamed CD without any trouble, but can you please assist me with the following, as I'm having the same exact problem with installing XP on a Acer 7720: 1. What storage driver do I need to use with that system, so that the hard drive shows up when installing XP? 2. What location on the CD would I put the extracted driver once I have it? -- wildwolf |
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sata driver for acer aspire 7720 laptop
On 3 feb, 00:25, wildwolf wrote:
sobriquet;786655 Wrote: On 27 jan, 04:19, sobriquet wrote:- On 26 jan, 23:01, Ralph2 wrote: - On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:45:00 -0800 (PST), sobriquet- - wrote:- -- Hello.-- -- When I try to install xp next to the current vista installation, and I boot the xp cd, it says it can't recognize the disk. I've googled a bit and found out I probably need a sata driver for xp. I can't find it however at the acer website. Does anyone know where to obtain suitable drivers for the sata disk so xp will be able to recognize it?-- -- Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help, Niek-- - I think you are approaching the wrong problem. Windows XP overwrites the *Vista boot record and thus screws itself up. . Have a read from this link...http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp- - Ralph- Yeah I know. That's the method I use. Previously it worked ok on a dell laptop, but it has a scsi disk. With a sata disk like in the acer, it's more complicated. One method is switching from AHCI to IDE in the bios, install xp, install the sata driver and switch it back to AHCI. The other method is slipstreaming the drivers into the xp installation disk (loading the drivers during setup with F6 is complicated when you have no floppy drive available).- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven - - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -- Update... the method to switch from AHCI to IDE and back failed miserably. I couldn't find a driver that would install under xp. Then I tried slipstreaming the aforementioned driver in this thread with nLite and that works wonderfully. So I can just keep the sata mode set to AHCI and install xp with the drivers slipstreamed into the installation cd. Now the next step (see other thread about specifications) is to obtain all suitable drivers for xp. Hi, I created a splipstreamed CD without any trouble, but can you please assist me with the following, as I'm having the same exact problem with installing XP on a Acer 7720: 1. *What storage driver do I need to use with that system, so that the hard drive shows up when installing XP? 2. *What location on the CD would I put the extracted driver once I have it? -- wildwolf If you use nLite, you just point the application to the location on disk where the drivers are and it will put the drivers inside the installation cd at the proper location so you can burn the installation cd again to obtain a version that includes the proper drivers. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filt...&submit=Los%21 On that page I would use the 2nd small download (293 KB) to obtain the drivers. |
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