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    vista to xp

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ereilly26, Feb 18, 2009.

  1. ereilly26

    ereilly26 Newbie

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    hi i have a aspire 8920 i want to take it back to xp but when i put the xp disk in it gose to the page were you press enter it says that it cant find a hardrive

    any help thank you
     
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    mani1128 Notebook Guru

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    u need to slipstream the sata drivers to ur installation disk or change the sata disk to support native ide version in bios
     
    mani1128, Feb 18, 2009
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