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    XPS M1210 Vista users...downgrade to XP Pro

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by truciet, Aug 9, 2007.

  1. truciet

    truciet Notebook Consultant

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    Hey everyone. I've been here reading a lot and I've finally joined. I just had a questions for you users who had vista and downgraded to XP. I recently got the xps m1210 for a really good deal, however, i do not like vista. My question is, I've noticed we have SATA HD's in these notebooks, in order to install XP, will i have to do the F6 function and have sata drivers from a floppy loaded or just install it normal like an IDE HD? :confused:
     
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    When I installed XP on my M1210 it skipped right past that. I too was expecting to install a SATA driver as well but it skipped right over that and onto the installation when I did it. And I was installing from an XP Pro SP1 CD.
     
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    thank you sir!
     
    truciet, Aug 9, 2007
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