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wipe Vista install XP on Gateway notebook

Asked by michealbeethoven in Windows Vista, PC Laptops, Computer Hard Drives

Tags: xp, gateway, vista, install

Someone asked me to replace Vista on a Gateway notebook with XP Home. Thought it would be easy but boy, did I find out different. When the XP CD is placed in the NB it soon states that the hard drive cannot be found.

I did the following:
* used DBAN to wipe the hard drive
* downloaded from Gateway the SATA driver for 32-bit OS and put it on floppy disk
* put floppy in external USB floppy drive and plugged it into NB
* booted from XP CD and pressed F6 to get to install third party drivers and when the time came loaded the driver from the floppy
* same error message cannot find hard drive
* went into BIOS and toggled Large Disk Access Mode from DOS to Other, same error message
* there is no other area in BIOS that mentions the hard drive so cannot enable/disable SATA or otherwise

Any ideas?

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wipe Vista install XP on Gateway notebook

Asked by michealbeethoven in Windows Vista, PC Laptops, Computer Hard Drives

Tags: xp, gateway, vista, install

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