Dual boot?

[danviau]

ok got the welcome to win xp screen, but the intsall xp tap was grayed out could not choose. Only options are perform additional tasks & check system compatibility.

 

[danviau]

for the welcome to MS screen but the install win xp is grayed out only options are perform additional tasks & chcek system compatibility.

 

[gregrocker]

Check System Compatibility to see if it reveals what drivers you need.

Is there a prompt to install SATA drivers in advance at any point? Maybe someone else can remember how that goes.

 

[danviau]

ok got the welcome to win xp screen, but the intsall xp tap was grayed out could not choose. Only options are perform additional tasks & check system compatibility.

 

[gregrocker]

Are you running SATA controller or IDE? Check in your BIOS by tapping F-key shown on first boot-up screen. See if you can set the HDD to IDE to get XP to recognize it.

If not then we need to get the SATA drivers in, either using XP installer prompt or slipstreaming them into the installer using Nlite.

I am a little rusty on XP installs and not at my computer to test this until Sat afternoon/eve.

Any help here?

 

[danviau]

just sends me to the MS website?

 

[gregrocker]

Are you running SATA controller or IDE? Check in your BIOS by tapping F-key shown on first boot-up screen. See if you can set the HDD to IDE to get XP to recognize it.

If not then we need to get the SATA drivers in, either using XP installer prompt or slipstreaming them into the installer using Nlite.

I am a little rusty on XP installs and not at my computer to test this until Sat afternoon/eve.

Did you try this?

 

[danviau]

yes in the bios it said sata native support - enabled

 

[gregrocker]

try setting that to IDE to see if XP has the driver for it in its installer. XP installers are missing many SATA drivers since it is newer. BIOS can often emulate IDE. Otherwise we need to get your SATA driver into the XP installer.

 

[danviau]

will this affect win 7 from booting?

 

[gregrocker]

The prompt to install SATA drivers is F6 given when it is loading drivers at the very start.

You need to install SATA driver for your controller, which you will find on the manufacturer's support download page for your model, or by Googling your model for it.

If you don't have floppy support, then they need to be slipstreamed into XP disk:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/How-To--Slipstream-your-XP-installationhttp://www.digitgeek.com/how-to-slip...rs-into-xp-cd/

 

[gregrocker]

You have "native sata" support enabled in your BIOS. First choice would be to simply disable it, after which everything should go as usual, except that supposedly it has small impact on the disk and battery performance. You can change it back after install.
Second choice would be to provide the drivers for the sata controller of your laptop, using F6 option during the early part of Windows XP installation. However, you will need internal or external floppy disc drive for that. Alternatively, you can slip stream the sata controller drivers to your Windows XP installation (not so hard as it may sound) using nLite software (it's free).

Install XP: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer Raymond.CC Blog

http://www.proposedsolution.com/solutions/windows-xp-setup-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives/

 

[danviau]

does not give me the option I can only enable or disable sata native

 

[danviau]

ok so I disabled the sata native wasn able to install xp, nice work!!! but I have no internet connection??? I had to run the repair on win 7 cd and got back into 7 but cant get back into xp and don;t know how to repair the internet.

 

[iseeuu]

ok so I disabled the sata native wasn able to install xp, nice work!!! but I have no internet connection??? I had to run the repair on win 7 cd and got back into 7 but cant get back into xp and don;t know how to repair the internet.

EVERY time I installed XP, I had to find and install the ethernet / network card drivers before I could use the Internet. I started keeping copies of the drivers.

Look at the Device Manager to find what network card you have, and Google for XP drivers.

This tutorial will show you one way to add XP to your boot manager:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2676-bcdedit-how-use.html

Cheers!
Robert

 

[gregrocker]

ok so I disabled the sata native wasn able to install xp, nice work!!! but I have no internet connection??? I had to run the repair on win 7 cd and got back into 7 but cant get back into xp and don;t know how to repair the internet.

Thought you were aware of the extra steps that are required to add XP last in the dual boot with 7, since you started this thread discussing these steps with me. See Robert's post above.

We don't have your system specs to google your model's product support download page, where most every computer has its drivers available for download. Download your ethernet adapter from there, or by googling the exact device name taken from the XP Device Manager, which is where you will then browse from to install the driver (or run it from your desktop).

Are you able to re-enable SATA in BIOS to get full performance, with no problems?

 

[danviau]

I was able to get the ethernet driver.. thanks!!! all seem good on xp, but not I still have to disable sata native to run XP. Win 7 will run great with sata enabled or disabled.

any advise to get xp to load with sata native enabled?

 

[iseeuu]

I was able to get the ethernet driver.. thanks!!! all seem good on xp, but not I still have to disable sata native to run XP. Win 7 will run great with sata enabled or disabled.

any advise to get xp to load with sata native enabled?

The first place to look is the manufacturer's web site. Look for a bios update, current chipset driver set, and/or hard drive utility. Install and update your computer.

Cheers!
Robert

 

[danviau]

I was able to get the ethernet driver.. thanks!!! all seem good on xp, but not I still have to disable sata native to run XP. Win 7 will run great with sata enabled or disabled.

any advise to get xp to load with sata native enabled?

The first place to look is the manufacturer's web site. Look for a bios update, current chipset driver set, and/or hard drive utility. Install and update your computer.

Cheers!
Robert

On the Manufactuer's web site I was able to find Intel Serial ATA (SATA) Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) Controller Driver. but it says this is to be done when installing the OS. I already have my OS installed. Any way to do this now. Below is the link to the Manufactuer's web site.
Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver HP Pavilion dv6150ca Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (Canada - English)

 

[gregrocker]

On the Manufactuer's web site I was able to find Intel Serial ATA (SATA) Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) Controller Driver. but it says this is to be done when installing the OS. I already have my OS installed. Any way to do this now. Below is the link to the Manufactuer's web site.
Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver HP Pavilion dv6150ca Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (Canada - English)

Right click Computer>Manage>Device Manager and check for any yellow exclamation marks indicating a device in error. Then look specifically for the SATA controller device, click on it and see what driver is installed. You can unzip the driver and browse to it to try to install it if needed. It most likely won't be listed though since it is disabled in BIOS.

However, this driver is specifically provided to overcome the "no HDD found" error you got when installing XP. Instead you chose to disable SATA support so your installation could proceed. If you had hit F6 when prompted during the loading-drivers early phase of the XP install, you could have added this driver on a floppy or stick to support SATA. Install XP: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer

If you are concerned about not being able to re-enable SATA in your BIOS, then you might want to try a repair install of XP, booting from the CD and adding SATA driver when prompted via F6 then proceeding with an install to the point where it discovers an installation at which point you can choose Repair. (Repair install is not the first "click R for Repair" option). If it won't merge the driver in a XP repair install, then you would need to reinstall if you want to recover SATA-enabled in XP, and it won't take the driver in the Device Manager.

Others might have more informed suggestions as I am rusty on XP installs as I said.