I have a Acer Aspire 4720z and it has vista installed in it(Sucks!) and now its giving problems, it continuousy restarts and thats it!..so ive decided to install XP on it now. But then I get the message in the XP setup that the setup doesnt detect any drimves on the computer so the setup cannot go through. Any one know how I can overcome this thing?
Ive used third part tools to try and format the drive first before trying to install XP but the hard drives are not being shown even on the third party tools.
Help anyone?..:D please.
thank you for your answer I have faith that its the correct one, however, there is no option for me to change the SATA setting in my BIOS. I have acer 4620z. there are only few details in my BIOS thats why I cant get it.. please help. thanks...
I have Acer Aspire Laptop Model 4720Z and it came with Microsoft Vista. I formated the hard drive and tried to install Microsoft Windows XP Pro and it got just past the windows installation screen and then came up with detecting no hard drive or drivers for the hard drive.Found this site and read some posts and found a solution that someone posted.I went into the Bios and changed hard drive from Sata Drive to IDE drive.Thanks for the post and it worked great....thank you very much for the post.
Can't see there's anything stopping so long as you have a copy of 64bit windows xp, and a legal license key. Obviously as it is a 'down grade' the install will have no options besides to run a 'new install' and thus it goes without saying you need to back up important files as everything on the hard drive will be replaced!
Be warned though, as much as many people still around the world rely on XP, the sad truth is it's a dieing OS with MS pulling support soon e.t.c. Just saying...
when I go to that site it only offers drivers for my x1301 for windows 7 but I need for xp. help please i'm so stuck!! thank you in advance for your help
i need drivers of aspire 5732z for win XP prof, i'm no driver intalation in my notebook acer aspire 5732Z.
Help my please......................
Jacques....... ( Brasil )
Hi, I got the same problem but I have a Gateway M465-E. The problem is that its have a Phoenix BIOS integrated so it doesn't have SATA Settings of something. So I can't reinstall windows XP.
Do you have a Windows Xp CD with the SATA drivers?
if you don't then that may be causing the problem. All you need to do is get the SATA drivers for your PC and integrate them into the windows xp cd. I think you can do this with a program called N-lite. all you need is windows xp installation cd and the SATA drivers.
i have an acer aspire 7720...it would get all the way to the "Starting windows setup" and then would go to 0x0000007b error. changing SATA modes like suggested worked perfectly. thanks much!
I read your post at www.kioskea.net about instaling XP system at aspire laptop, You wrote that you have aspire 5732Z model of aspire.
I have question do you still use xp system, and if yes, whom where you got drivers for all parts of computer, sound, chipset, camera, lan, wifi etc.
i will be very pleased if you reanwser to me. wright know I am confused because nowhere I can find drivers, and at acer main site is writing that for model acer aspire 5732z there is no drivers for xp system but only for vista and 7 windows.
we should use two type /diffrent type of driver for vista and xp.u can down load from internet serch. if u compuret ram is 4gb it can not supported xp on it . (sp-3 sutiable it .if we not able to instal xp and get blu screen and ram /hdd problem while instaling. ) second methode- take out hdd and instal xp from another computer and after put it on laptop] it can help u.
I have problem, instalation was canceled. system32\hal.dll is not found. I have a solution on this problem. USB MULTIBOOT TOOL. Here is video_manual, how to do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vt_8p0VllY
Thanks alot for your comments guys, I'm able to install xp on my aspire D250 by your help and get rid of the blue screen with 7b error.
Here is my path:
I tried to change sata setting from bios ahci to ide but it didn't wook for me. I returned back the configuration to the original so no changes made on bios.
I merged sp3 and AHCI driver for XP(downloaded from the official site of acer) to my winxp cd using n-lite. Then everything goes well....
u do not install direct xp on your system beacause your system have sata hard disk so u use sata xp cd after your problem solve if u dont have sata xp cd u go the setup mode on your system and change the drive for sata to ata or compatible any problem say me on my id (aasmohd32@yahoo.com)
hello sasika may be u use for xp cd old one and don't use u for sata cd for xp if u use sata cd foy xp windows ur hard drive shown and u install windows xp
and if u don't have sata cd u go for the satup for ur system and change the hard drive made for ata so sata if sata so ata and after u save ur satting and restarts system and install windows
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Be warned though, as much as many people still around the world rely on XP, the sad truth is it's a dieing OS with MS pulling support soon e.t.c. Just saying...