Windows Thread, Vista to XP upgrade . Cannot see hard drive in Operating System; Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my daughters laptop to XP but keep hitting a brick wall, as it cannot see ...

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newbe · 12-02-2009, 11:50 PM

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my daughters laptop to XP but keep hitting a brick wall, as it cannot see the HDD when trying to install...The laptop has one of the vista's (are they all that bad??), but she prefers XP..Laptop is an ACER Extensa 5620Z,...

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my daughters laptop to XP but keep hitting a brick wall, as it cannot see the HDD when trying to install...The laptop has one of the vista's (are they all that bad??), but she prefers XP..Laptop is an ACER Extensa 5620Z, but they are not very helpful as it seems they just want to push Vista...
Someone did suggest it might need a 3rd party driver? to load before installing XP, but didn't say the driver for what..HDD, Motherboard, HDD controller...
Having bought a new XP disk, i'm dissapointed to see I cannot install straight over the top of this other NON user friendly O/S.
Thanks in advance

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Windows Thread, Vista to XP upgrade . Cannot see hard drive in Operating System; Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my daughters laptop to XP but keep hitting a brick wall, as it cannot see ... Short Link: http://forum.egypt.com/enforum/showthread.php?t=28397