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PCs & Mobiles Forum - Bloody Advent laptop! - Page 1
Elite
So I pick up a nice cheap laptop from a local discount store and decided that 7 ain't for me and get to setting up XP on it only I can't! 
The installation disk gets to XP is starting at which point the installation blue screens and dies.. The bottom line on this is the XP disk needs to be 'slipstreamed' with some program to allow the hard disk to be seen as a IDE. Now I have NO idea how to do it nor what I would be slipstreaming it with program wise?
So my question is could I pull the HDD format and install XP on another machine then fit it back to the laptop and run XP?
Any thoughts?
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“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve (1953-2004)
Elite
It sounds like it is looking for an AHCI driver for the SATA controller. Some laptops have the option in the BIOS to set the SATA mode to the older Legacy PATA compatiable mode, if not you will need that driver to be installed even if you load windows on another machine. And that brings it own problems of having different hardware and maybe finding that Windows wont boot due to the different drivers needed.
You can install the AHCI drivers from a disk if you have an external floppy drive to load it from, when XP starts to load you press F6 to load more drivers, let XP setup continue loading, then it will prompt you for the disk. Once it is on there setup should continue.
After saying all that slipstreaming isnt that big a deal, there are apps that will do it all for you, you can add all the latest XP updates into the CD along with the drivers then once setup is run your machine is already up to date without spending another hour or two downloading updates. Can't remember the program I used before to do it though so maybe someone else with point you in the right direction.
Before you go down the XP route though check that the drivers exist for all the hardware, you dont want to find you can't get the wireless or graphics card working after running through windows setup.
EDIT: nLite was the program I used before, google Slipstream XP and there are plenty of easy to follow guides.
This item was edited on Monday, 30th January 2012, 20:19
Elite Donator
Can't remember what I used to slipstream an XP install disc but it was from a google search and was easy to do.
You don't actually need a floppy drive, you can find the right SATA/RAID/SCSI/AHCI driver for the machine, burn it to a CD and when windows pops up the "Press F(x) to load external SCSI/RAID driver" you hit F(x) then wait for the prompt to swap discs, this is what I did first time round before slipstreaming it.
(I think as Sash says above the F number is F6 but can't remember offhand)
Again as Sash already mentions, get a note of ALL the hardware, including the motherboard so you can source drivers beforehand... Advent website should have them if they are available for XP.
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Elite
So I need to look for a Sata driver for the Advent?
Thanks chaps..
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“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve (1953-2004)
