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    Acer Downgrading

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by furioniz, Dec 7, 2009.

  1. furioniz

    furioniz Newbie

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    i have been trying to downgrade my extensa 5620 from vista to XP. i already formated my drive but as soon as XP installer would not find my drive i saw somethign wrong. win XP does not have the drivers for SATA HD :S i dont know if win XP SP3 has them any way.

    i tried using nlite to create an XP CD with this driver integrated.
    i can find the drivers on acer website but nlite needs an .inf to add the driver!!!! the driver files i download dont include this file extension and include a setup file does someone know another solution or some solution to this problem???
     
    furioniz, Dec 7, 2009
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  2. Drjones

    Drjones Notebook Consultant

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    XP SP3 is pretty good about installing with a lot of drivers, but it is almost a 10 year old OS.

    You really should try to locate a copy of Win7.
     
    Drjones, Dec 7, 2009
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  3. Traditio

    Traditio Notebook Guru

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    Try these three things:

    a) Either download the driver from your chipset vendor (Intel, I guess); or

    b) Unpack the driver setup package and grab the drivers from there (you can use Universal Extractor to do so. I did it this way with my 8930G); or

    c) Install XP while having the disk in IDE mode and enable AHCI after installing. Here is a detailed guide on how to do it. This way you don't have to slipstream the drivers.

    Good luck.
     
    Traditio, Dec 8, 2009
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    chriscatt Notebook Evangelist

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  5. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    Buy one USB Floppy drive , and use it to supply the driver , at XP installation.

    Think about it , that you buy a tool , and not just a USB Floppy drive .
     
    kiriakost, Dec 8, 2009
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