Robert Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/...windows-xp.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 hahah good article. I want to upgrade to XP too. unfortunately my lappy has a SATA drive and no floppy. so it don't work.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybarite Paladin AxL Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 hahah good article. I want to upgrade to XP too. unfortunately my lappy has a SATA drive and no floppy. so it don't work.... Eh? Just get a bootable XP disk, pop it in, restart and reinstall. You don't need floppies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 the XP discs I've tried don't support SATA. you need a floppy to load the sata drivers. I'm sure there is another way I just haven't found it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmad89 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 As much as i agree with most of the stuff he says, xp has been out for 4 or 5 years compared to Vista which is NEW. Yes i know that when something is released it shouldnt be crap, but you have to wait and see. It will get thier, especially when microsoft screws everybody by saying no more updates for xp. I for one will stay using vista as i bought my computer with it and dont feel like upgrading/downgrading my OS. If i wanted to change i would of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidius23 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 inky just get ya a usb floppy i had to get one to take my toshiba laptops back to xp. only messed up part is zune software wont install with updates in xp and i dont do windwos updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper man Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 the XP discs I've tried don't support SATA. you need a floppy to load the sata drivers. I'm sure there is another way I just haven't found it. if I remember right I think some BIOSes have a feature where you can put your SATA drives into ATA compatibility mode and install that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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