It's new enough to have the IDE emulation setting. Loading XP now. That was too easy! I expect this build to last less than a year, as I hope to take this church to Win7 sometime late next summer. We have to raise some funding for new licensing - shouldn't be too bad with Microsoft's "Charity" licensing program. The first round of licenses weren't bad. Wish I could get that pricing for all my customers.
Thanks for the help. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland [email protected] On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:15 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > You might have to build an install with SATA drivers. I had to do that > for a laptop. Or, tell the system to emulate PATA in the BIOS. Often times > there’s an option for that in the BIOS > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 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 XP Pro in this device so > that it can join the domain. I made all the Vista disks when I got the > machine and hunted down the XP drivers from the Gateway website. Actually > finding the drivers suggests that XP willrun in the box. > > > > However: > > > > When trying to load XP I get the isntall started and then it moves on and > says that it can't load it here. Somewhere, I think I remember reading that > XP won't boot off of a SATA drive. Can anyone verify that? I can't seem to > find any definitive reference at this time, but will continue ot look. > > > > This site is not yet ready to migrate to Windows 7, and I sure don't want > to introduce Vista there. They also don't, at this time, have a legal > license for Win7, and didn't want to incur that expense at this time. > > > > Anone have some thoughts about XP on SATA drives? > > > Len Hammond > CSI:Hartland > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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