Installing XP on a Vista Laptop (acer 5100)

Hello folks,
My acer 5100 came with vista and I'm trying to do a fresh install of XP SP2 on it. After I get past the partitioning part in the install process, it goes on to the "installing windows" stage and shuts off midway. This has been happening a few times and after some googling, reckoned it has to do with the SATA hard drive.

I tried to get on Bios and change the SATA to IDE but I didnt find any modifiable property for the hard drive on BIOS

I'm wondering some of you folks who installed XP on a vista laptop got it done.

Any inputs would be much appreciated.

Cheerio!

 

Well in your bios it may not be labled SATA...it may be labeled AHCI which is the same thing. See if thats an option...im sure it is. If it is, Switch it to IDE mode because thats the only way you are going to be able to boot. However there are some threads describing how to slipstream the SATA drivers into a bootable XP CD install. My hard drive interface option was in the Main Tab of the bios

When I installed XP on my 5315 my drivers became SATA drivers after installed the Intel Matrix Storage Utility and updated Chipset drivers...but for the life of me, I cant remember how to do it.

I know I am not really good at explaining how to do things, so bear with me.

 

Thanks for your response

My bios shows up as follows:

Info:
Bios ver 2.73
HDD Model No & S No

Main:
Sys time, date, memory, ext memory, Vid memory, Quiet boot, network boot etc
<Nothing related to HD here>

Boot order:
IDE 0 ...............dvd drive..........
SATA ..........HDD serial no..........
IDE 1 : .........none.....
PCI BEV
USB HDD
USB KEY

It's frustrating that none of these options can be edited....I dont get any alternate options when I tabbed through these lists

By the way, I just installed Ubuntu on my laptop and it works beautifully like a dream. I was hoping to dual boot it with XP. Had Vista all along and when it did the updates, it would end up screwing my mouse and keyboard couple of times, that's when I decided to switch to linux and XP. But I'm currently stuck at the XP part

This is an AMD Turion, so how would I able to run your Intel fix? Also I guess the fix involves running some .exe file, if that's the case how would I do that on Ubuntu?

Would greatly appreciate any suggestion that would pave the way for a basic XP install, I can handle it from there

Thanks!!

 

If you're in SATA mode and cannot change it to IDE your only option is to slipstream a SATA driver into your XP CD using nLite. Check this link, it's for 5315 but it doesn't matter.

By the way where exactly your XP install fails? You said after "partitioning"..? So XP Installation can "see" your HDD? This may means you're in IDE mode and something else is wrong...

 

I'm typing this from XP, Woohoo! Thanks

 

You are only running Bios version 2.73 that is quite old. The latest bios for the 5100 series is 3.13.

 

so bye updating the bios it will work ?