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Running Windows Vista Premium on an Asus G2S Notebook. The Hard drive is SATA. Trying to install Windows XP Home on new partition. Used Vista to shrink current c Drive and create a 7 Gig Partition on the drive. Downloaded SATA drivers from the ASUS web site for my notebook and put the drivers on a floppy disk. Shut down Notebook. Restarted notebook and booted from Windows XP Home disk. Pressed F6 to load SCSI & SATA drivers when promted. When promted to load sata drivers (3rd party drivers for the hard disk) a list of drivers comes up on screen. I tried to load them one at time each time I got this result, It loaded the driver and went on loading the preloads for the Windows Install. The screen came up to hit Enter to load windows or R to repair windows. I hit Enter. ERROR: Windows could not locate a hard disk on this machine, setup will now end. That happened with every driver I attempted to load from the floppy. The drivers I acquired from ASUS are eSATA_VISTA_070517 . Went into the bios and locked the SATA functions and attempted to install windows that way. Still no joy. The only option in my Bios is to lock or unlock sata. There are NO other options. Attempted to slipstream the drivers for the SATA to a Windows XP disk. That also Failed. It absolutely will not recognize the hard drive. PLEASE, there has to be someone out there that knows how to fix this problem short of wiping my hard drive. I do not want to delete Vista and install XP first. I am in a remote location in Iraq and have limited resources on the internet. If someone has a clue please respond to this post. Thank you
Asus G2s X1 Vista Xp Dual Boot Problem
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Deiter, Dec 22, 2007.
