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    Aspire Idea 500 - XP install problems

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by crosestein, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. crosestein

    crosestein Newbie

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    A hard one to crack I think. . .

    We have a Acer Aspire Idea 500 Media Center over here.
    HD crashed on us and we had to replace it.

    The new HD is also a WD 250 as before. Same make, model, etc etc.

    When booting from the Windows Media Center Edition (legal!) CD, it tels us that it can't find any HD. No partitions to create . .

    Who's got any 'idea'? Is there a special driver fro the Sata controller we have to load? We couldn't find anything?

    All help is appreciated.
     
    crosestein, Aug 3, 2008
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  2. liyang6688

    liyang6688 Notebook Guru

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    I think you should turn off sata in BIOS at first,and then install xp~
     
    liyang6688, Aug 3, 2008
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  3. crosestein

    crosestein Newbie

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    Bios doesnt support sata!
     
    crosestein, Aug 4, 2008
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    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    bigozone, Aug 4, 2008
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