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Originally Posted by De Laurentius
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).
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Thats very true, but I did say in my original post that I hit every F key from F1-F12 and they did nothing and that was from just hitting the key once on startup to tapping it repeatedly till the laptop start to beeping telling me to stop.
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Originally Posted by De Laurentius
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.
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I have had experience with this type of thing before and it was a pain in the *** but when I used the XP install disk and it could see the SATA drive on the laptop and had no problems when it tried to format it. Also I all ready downloaded all the XP drivers for the laptop on my main PC before I started this whole adventure.
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Originally Posted by De Laurentius
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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I normally like to keep the recovery paritition just incase I want to re-install Vista at a later date, but since the Laptop can't get past POST it doesn't really matter about the Rec Par or any recovery Disks since they can't load up.
Thx for the reply
