newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Len Hammond
Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open license tickets for XP pro and I want to install XP Pro in this device so that it can join the domain. I made all the Vista disks when I got the

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread John Aldrich
2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: newer laptop and Windows xp Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open license tickets for XP pro and I want to install XP Pro in this device so

Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread MarvinC
Download nLite and the SATA drivers. Use nLite to build a bootable ISO containing those drivers. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Len Hammond lenhammo...@gmail.com wrote: Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows Vista Home

Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Rene de Haas
Press F6 and load the sata drivers at the start of the setup. Hth Rene On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Len Hammond lenhammo...@gmail.com wrote: Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Erik Goldoff
: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: newer laptop and Windows xp Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open license tickets for XP pro and I want to install

Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Stephan Barr
XP works fine on SATA it's more likely a BIOS issue as mentioned. You can emulate PATA operation; check it out. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Len Hammond lenhammo...@gmail.com wrote: Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Matthew W. Ross
- Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:27:48 -0800 Subject: RE: newer laptop and Windows xp I have a 3 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop with SATA drive

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+1 We have to do that here reasonably often. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: newer laptop and Windows xp XP works fine on SATA it's more likely a BIOS issue as mentioned. You can emulate

Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Len Hammond
*To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* newer laptop and Windows xp Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open license tickets for XP pro and I want to install XP Pro in this device so