Hi there,
I'm new around here, but I hope someone can help me with this problem of mine.
I currently have a Danish Windows Vista, Home Premium (with all security updates) installed on my laptop, and because some programming software (which we use on my education) can't run on this windows version, I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro sp2 (also Danish version). However, I can't install it, due to the fact that my harddisk is a SATA drive, and the XP installer can't find that.
I've got a 160 GB harddrive, which is partitioned into three drives, one with all my software and vista on, one with the drivers for my laptop, and one that is empty and ready to have XP installed on it.
I've heard that this could be solved by shutting off RAID or something like that in the BIOS, but I've looked and looked, but I simply can't seem to find it anywhere. I've tried to find the BIOS somewhere, to see if they have it described, but I can't find that either.
I'm running a Phoenix BIOS version R01-B0J, or so it says in the BIOS menu at least (and VGA version 08.15 I believe it was), and it's just not like the one you have on your website (
http://www.computerhope.com/help/phoenix.htm).
In the advanced options, I can only see the harddrive and the cd-rom drive, and some other stuff that I can't remember, but seemed quite irrelevant for this problem. I can then switch the settings of the SATA drive, away from AUTO as it is on now, to USER or CD-rom, removeable IDE, and a few other options, where the IDE one didn't work either (tried that one).
Also, I have no floppy drive, and no external once around either, so I can't load the driver in the installation either.
I hope I've detailed it enough for you, and that someone has an idea about what I can do.
Thank you for your time and reading all this.
Best regards,
Johny Iversen