Removing Vista

[Dave Youell]

I hate it

It came on a new laptop

I've tried to use my XP disc as a boot, it starts up, but then it comes up with a message that windows can't define the drives.

Apparently I've read that it might be because it's a sata drive, although I can't confirm that.

Basically I just want XP on the machine, but it seems near impossible, any suggestions?

[Bad Company]

You need to go into the BIOS and change the hard drive compatability type, then you will be able to install XP.

[Dave Youell]

Ah ha

Right then, I'll give that a go later, thanks.

I've also found a way to create an XP disc with sata drivers included on it, si I might look more into that if this way doesn't work

[Boomer]

Yeah it has to do with the XP disc, which doesn't have any support for SATA drives unless you get or make a custom image. So that should work if it has the driver you need on there.

[Xero]

apt-get remove ms-vista

[#BROKEN Hasney]

sudo it *shakes fist*

[Xero]

Fuck sudo.

Maybe he should just wipe it completely and recompile from source.

[Boomer]

Oh my god. Linux humor. I feel like...a part of something?

-edit- That makes me sound pathetic, but oh well. Not running any distros ATM though :(

[Dave Youell]

Thanks all, just had to change my bios, nice and easy

[Boomer]

Good to hear. It sounded exactly like a problem I had, but BC hit the nail on the head.

[Dave Youell]

I was worried for a while, because I was reading about some people who couldn't change the bios and there was a 30 step plan on making a new XP disc that can read sata drives, that seemed complicated

[Boomer]

Yeah I always had to have a floppy on file that had the SATA drivers for my old motherboard...it was mad annoying. Glad you didn't have to go through much trouble.