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Default Can't install XP on a SATA HDD?
I bought a new PC last sunday with a SATA HDD installed and it came with Vista HP... anyway I want to dual boot XP and Vista but XP install wont detect my SATA HDD... I havent got the floppy disk for the SATA drivers and havent even got a Floppy drive :S Tried looking on my products homepage but no driver downloads there either

any ideas?

I have a IDE Slave HDD connected all goes well untill it reboots but when i reboot onto that HDD it comes up saying:

Windows cannot start because this file is either missing or corrupt:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\hal.dll

any ideas on how to resolve this?


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Would it be easier to disable my SATA HDD in BIOS and boot from my IDE?? to install XP??


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hi well try doing that your pc not mine
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hi
well try doing that then post back
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Default Re: Can't install XP on a SATA HDD?
Have you used Vista disk management and partitioned the drive?


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I had to use nLite to stlipstream XP with the SATA drivers.
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apple is this resolved now?


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