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    Vaio VGN-NR385E SATA/WinXP drivers?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by zgrowler2, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. zgrowler2

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    I'm currntly in the process of downgrading (upgrading?) to WinXP from a pre-installed Vista Home Premium. Unfortunately, XP needs SATA drivers and nowhere can I find the manufacturer info for the 200GB hdd in this machine. Sony isn't helping.

    Also, I''ve heard from a few people who've managed to get WinXP SP2 running on an NR-series laptop that several drivers are required. If anyone could point me to those I'd be much obliged.

    I can't go looking through Vista for the info because the OS tripped over itself and forgot where winload.exe was when I used GPartEd to create a second partition for XP. I'm working on finding a boot disc and fixing that now.

    Thanks for any help!
     
    zgrowler2, Aug 14, 2008
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