[Sardasht]

Dears,
I have Home Vista on my Laptop (HP Pavilion dv6735ee) and I wanted to do a format to XP!!!
I have No. of Telecommunication programs that not work with Vista!!!!! and I already tried to do that but I failed!!!! I got an massage that there is no Hard disk!!!!
I will appreciate if I got any help please,
Regards
Sardasht

[RIV@NVX]

Originally Posted by Sardasht

Dears,
I have Home Vista on my Laptop (HP Pavilion dv6735ee) and I wanted to do a format to XP!!!
I have No. of Telecommunication programs that not work with Vista!!!!! and I already tried to do that but I failed!!!! I got an massage that there is no Hard disk!!!!
I will appreciate if I got any help please,
Regards
Sardasht

If you don't have an option in BIOS to set "SATA Native Mode" or something like "AHCI Mode", you can pretty much say goodbye to XP on that laptop. If you have it, just set it to "Disable" and install XP. Then download the drivers from HP's site and install them. HP has great support for it's laptops.

[Tipstaff]

Originally Posted by RIV@NVX

If you don't have an option in BIOS to set "SATA Native Mode" or something like "AHCI Mode", you can pretty much say goodbye to XP on that laptop. If you have it, just set it to "Disable" and install XP. Then download the drivers from HP's site and install them. HP has great support for it's laptops.

As you said, one way would be to set the controller to a compatible mode (such as IDE/PATA). That's the easy way. However, if you can't change that setting there is still hope. You could always slipstream the necessary drivers (found HERE), and create a new Windows install CD using nLite (found HERE). Just follow the guide, as well as the instructions within nLite, and you'll have yourself a new installer CD complete with the necessary drivers for the Windows installer to properly see the hard drive controller.