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    asus eeepc 1005pe to XP help

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by vaeevictiss, Mar 3, 2010.

  1. vaeevictiss

    vaeevictiss Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey all,

    i recently got my g/f one of these netbooks after my old alienware that i let her use finally crapped out. She doesnt do much so thats why i only picked a netbook.

    Of course they come with the Win 7 Starter which is just junk, and obviously pretty sluggish on a netbook...even after upgrading the ram to 2gb.

    I want to reformat it with XP, but am having some issues. I used nlite to add SP2 and SP3 to my xp cd, as well as the sata driver. I found the info to make a bootable USB and went into the BIOS to set the boot to USB.

    The install started going thru that blue screen like normal...but low and behold when i got to the drive listing, the only thing showing...was the USB drive the XP data was on...no hard drive whatsoever. I tried messing around the BIOS options some more, but have failed to find anything to get my hard drive to show up in the format screen...at a loss here and any help is appreciated.
     
    vaeevictiss, Mar 3, 2010
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    vaeevictiss Notebook Enthusiast

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    bump for posting late last night
     
    vaeevictiss, Mar 4, 2010
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    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    Have you tried setting your SATA setting in the BIOS to compatible mode?
     
    David, Mar 4, 2010
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    vaeevictiss Notebook Enthusiast

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    sure did, i think i messed with almost everything in the bios
     
    vaeevictiss, Mar 4, 2010
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    vaeevictiss Notebook Enthusiast

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    im wondering if it would just be easier with an external cd drive, maybe i did something wrong while making the bootable usb
     
    vaeevictiss, Mar 4, 2010
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