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Trouble installing XP drivers on a vista machine

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  • Started 2 months ago by rmadhan18
  • Latest reply from jonhill987
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rmadhan18
Posts: 3

Hi,
My laptop is a dv2601TU model that comes without a SATA disable option in the BIOS. I formatted the complete vista partition and installed Ubuntu.
I used Neolite to burn a customised version of windows XP SP2 with SATA drivers.. But when I use the bootable DVD, it starts in DOS mode and goes to a prompt like this
A:/>
None of the usual commands work on this prompt
Why does this require a floppy drive to install XP?
Im quite sure about the drivers that I downloaded from hp website. They are the right ones for my machine ad XP.

Can someone help me with this ?

Posted 2 months ago #
 
jonhill987
jonhill987
Posts: 113

I don't think you need to slipstream the SATA drivers, for installing windows the generic ones in XP SP2 should be enough, I have always installed the SATA drivers from within XP after it is all working.

Posted 2 months ago #
 
rmadhan18
Posts: 3

I tried using the regular xp cd. The setup comes to a halt, saying
" Setup cannot find any disk drives. "
That's why i went to the slipstreaming option.

Posted 2 months ago #
 
jonhill987
jonhill987
Posts: 113

Was that a SP2 setup disk? You would need to slipstream SP2 but you shouldn't normally have to slipstream any other drivers.

Posted 2 months ago #
 
rmadhan18
Posts: 3

ya. it was an sp2 setup disk

Posted 2 months ago #
 
jonhill987
jonhill987
Posts: 113

That is odd, I guess as new hardware gets released support for XP will get less and less (are you sure you can't put up with Vista? It is quite good when you get used to it, I wouldn't go back myself.).

It is possible the slipstream of the drivers went wrong. Can you get hold of an external floppy drive an put the drivers on there? You should then be able to "F6" them on booting from the CD.

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