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    Installing XP on the Acer Aspire One (D150)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by OGC, Jun 1, 2010.

  1. OGC

    OGC Notebook Enthusiast

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    A friend of mine wants to sell his netbook and wiped the HDD clean to get rid of his stuff. This removed everything from the hard-drive including Windows. I've managed to get a copy of the Recovery DVDs and have used WinToFlash to make a bootable USB drive to install XP off of.

    However, when I get to the part where the setup asks which partition to install Windows onto, it doesn't list the HDD; just the USB drive from which the installation is running.

    Anyone got an ideas on how I can get the hard-drive to show up in these options?

    Cheers
     
    OGC, Jun 1, 2010
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    In the BIOS you will want to change the SATA/HDD mode from AHCI to IDE
     
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  3. OGC

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    You genius! :)

    It's working now.

    Thanks.
     
    OGC, Jun 1, 2010
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