topic Re: ar21m cant install xp someone please help in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/ar21m-cant-install-xp-someone-please-help/m-p/164107#M81637 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi smart phones and welcome to Club Vaio.<BR /><BR />XP does not support SATA hard discs and cannot recognise your hard disc without loading the SATA drivers during the installation.<BR /><BR />The usual way is to use a floppy USB disc drive (you remember them 1.44MB) and to press F6 when you see the Welcome to Setup screen during the XP install.<BR /><BR />There is a way around this if you don't have a floppy drive by using nLite to make a bootable CD of your XP installation that includes the SATA drivers.<BR /><BR />Have a look at this <A href="http://club.vaio.sony.co.uk/clubvaio/GB/en/forum/viewthread?thread=38788" target="_blank">RECENT POST</A> for more info.<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.ba/html/@0248C33DDCF34AA61B8F8F33F5AFA5BE/images/smilies/013.png" alt=":wink:" title=":wink:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:47:35 GMT Blencogo 2007-02-06T18:47:35Z ar21m cant install xp someone please help https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/ar21m-cant-install-xp-someone-please-help/m-p/164106#M81636 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>iv got im ar21m wicked laptop but too much sony stuff wich i dont like it so when i boot xp and try to format my harddrive it says set up cannot find hard drives i even tryed to put the sata drivers on the disk and install it but no luck so could someone please help me<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:32:28 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/ar21m-cant-install-xp-someone-please-help/m-p/164106#M81636 smartphones 2007-02-06T16:32:28Z Re: ar21m cant install xp someone please help https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/ar21m-cant-install-xp-someone-please-help/m-p/164107#M81637 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi smart phones and welcome to Club Vaio.<BR /><BR />XP does not support SATA hard discs and cannot recognise your hard disc without loading the SATA drivers during the installation.<BR /><BR />The usual way is to use a floppy USB disc drive (you remember them 1.44MB) and to press F6 when you see the Welcome to Setup screen during the XP install.<BR /><BR />There is a way around this if you don't have a floppy drive by using nLite to make a bootable CD of your XP installation that includes the SATA drivers.<BR /><BR />Have a look at this <A href="http://club.vaio.sony.co.uk/clubvaio/GB/en/forum/viewthread?thread=38788" target="_blank">RECENT POST</A> for more info.<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.ba/html/@0248C33DDCF34AA61B8F8F33F5AFA5BE/images/smilies/013.png" alt=":wink:" title=":wink:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:47:35 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/ar21m-cant-install-xp-someone-please-help/m-p/164107#M81637 Blencogo 2007-02-06T18:47:35Z