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De Laurentius · 05-13-2009, 10:22 AM

First, make sure it's the "DEL" key the one that gets you into BIOS, notebooks/laptops builders have a nasty habbit of assighning another key for that (like the F1 F2... keys). Next, you should download some drivers for your AHCI/SATA HDD since win XP might have troubles "reading" your hard drive. Also you should download all the drivers needed.
Use a SP2 version. It's best to make your own WIN XP setup CD (there are some utils that can help you do that) because the brilliant minds at microsoft decided that AHCI/SATA drivers can be read only from a floppy disk, which can be a little bit incovenient using a laptop. About the recovery partition, it's a waste of your HDD space since you don't need all that preinstalled crap again, you want a fresh win.

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De Laurentius Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 21 OS: Win XP Pro 5.1.2600 SP2 Build 2600	Re: Advent 7115 Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!! First, make sure it's the "DEL" key the one that gets you into BIOS, notebooks/laptops builders have a nasty habbit of assighning another key for that (like the F1 F2... keys). Next, you should download some drivers for your AHCI/SATA HDD since win XP might have troubles "reading" your hard drive. Also you should download all the drivers needed. Use a SP2 version. It's best to make your own WIN XP setup CD (there are some utils that can help you do that) because the brilliant minds at microsoft decided that AHCI/SATA drivers can be read only from a floppy disk, which can be a little bit incovenient using a laptop. About the recovery partition, it's a waste of your HDD space since you don't need all that preinstalled crap again, you want a fresh win.