I just bought a new ASUS laptop for work and I need to install XP on it for my medical software. I went in the bios and changed the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE and when I go to select a boot device the disk drive is no longer in the menu. Any ideas?
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SOLVED Problem Installing Windows
- Thread starter EGAJohn
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I wouldn't think that with a sata hard drive that it would not show up with it set to IDE.
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Not sure what the problem is, however, sata based drivers do show up in the bios in ide mode.
Ok I wasn't 100% was trying to google it and find something before ATM or one of you more knowledgeable guys came around lol
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If you change it to IDE, go into the BIOS to make sure it is still an allowable boot item. For example, my Lenovo allows me to add/remove "allowable" boot items. Changing it to IDE presents it as a new device, and it may default to disabled. That is, you may have to tell the BIOS it is OK to boot that item.
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Make sure you have "Legacy" boot enabled. It's called something like that, I don't thinmk XP will like UEFI
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In the bios i get the option to change SATA controller mode from AHCI or IDE. When i change it to AHCI the dvd drive shows up and im able to LAUNCH the installation disk. After launch i get the blue error screen when attempting to load xp files. (This is also with Windows Vista, 7, & 8) Now when I set the controller to IDE no drives show up at all; the boot device list becomes empty. I either need to get Windows XP to install on AHCI mode or get the dvd drive to appear when set to IDE mode. This laptop is brand new and I wiped the hdd when i got it so there is currently no OS installed, now this laptop is pretty much useless and i need to get it working soon.
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This happened to me when I was installing Win 7 on a laptop that came with Win 8.
I had to enable Legacy mode in the BIOS AND make sure that UEFI was enabled still as well. Basically, UEFI + the old "Legacy" BIOS boot were both enabled. That secure boot crap was disabled as well..
Look around the BIOS of that stuff. Also, did you "Press F6 to install 3rd party drivers" when you were installing XP?
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"F6" only works with a floppy!
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"F6" only works with a floppy!
Eh? I was under the assumption that USB's would work as long as Winders see it?
Are you 100% positive your software won't work with the compatibility mode in Windows 7?
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You could make a slipstream install that includes your AHCI drivers for XP that was the only way I found around it unless you have a usb floppy drive that XP will recognize.
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