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04-04-2008, 01:12 PM
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I bought my kid a new Acer AS5315 laptop. I need to get rid of Vista and install XP. I used Killdisk to zero the hard drive. When I boot to the XP cd it says no hard drive found. It is reconized in BIOS though. Can I format without the XP cd then install XP? Where can I get a format CD ?
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04-04-2008, 03:01 PM
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Did you verify that you can get XP chipset drivers Before starting this project?
Guessing the hard drive is SATA. Look in the BIOS to change its "mode" to IDE.
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04-05-2008, 07:13 AM
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Good!! I changed the mode to IDE and XP installed OK.
Acer has all of the drivers and I am installing them now. Thanks Trulad |
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