Hi, I have an HP ENVY 15-1021TX with Windows 7
I want to put windows XP on it but when it gets to the stage at which you choose the hard drive or partition, it says that it cant find a hard drive!
Does anyone know how to fix this???
Thanks
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Windows XP does not natively support SATA hard drives. You're going to need to slipstream the drivers into your installation CD. You can use a program called nLite to do this. Pretty much, download the chipset drivers from Intel (the f6 floppy files are all that's necessary). Then, use nLite the rip your XP installation, add the drivers and burn it back to disc.
It may take a few tries to get it right. When I did this last year, I think I burned 4 or 5 discs before I put the right driver in. -
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if the reason you want to put xp on it is just because something doesn't work anymore on win7, you could instead ask for help on how to get that working.
otherwise, what anseio said. it's not easy.
be aware that the system is not designed for xp, thus might not that well as you'd expect. examples are in power consumption, it might not optimally idle down each component thus using more battery, etc.. -
Thanks for the responses,
Im putting windows XP on it as it is used for presentations and performances and after 6 months it starts having errors and its apparently a problem with windows. The worst of which is when it just goes blank, you cant see or do anything and i cant afford this to happen during an event! -
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Of course, from the rather vague description of the issue, I suspect you might just have to change the power management settings in Windows 7. Of course, I wouldn't discount driver, bios or hardware issues. In any case, XP isn't the solution.
HP ENVy and Windows XP
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mischef1995, Jul 22, 2011.