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Last answer on Aug 29, 2009 2:09:36 pm BST nani, on Oct 3, 2008 12:43:36 pm BST 
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Hello,I am nani. I have bought a laptop dell inspiron 1525 with windows vista home premium. It is not supporting c language. So I installed XP. While installing it showed that HDD is noy found. So my question is how to install XP along with Vista. HDDis 250GB & RAM is 3GB
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1 
griever09, on Oct  3, 2008  1:51:00 pm BST
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First format the hdd, then create 2 partitions in the hdd - drive c: and d:, install vista on c and then install xp on d. this will definitely occupy a large amount of disk space.
   
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Bappa Das, on Nov 27, 2008  8:24:13 am GMT
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Are you a fool do you know that you have to install winxp in drive C and vista on drive D otherwise the boot menu will not show the dual mode.



stupid
   
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optimystix, on Dec 28, 2008  6:37:37 am GMT
Who told u...guess u are a fool urself



vista on c n xp on d works perfectly fine...

done it on so many laps till now...no prob watsoever
   
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stokey1964, on Oct 28, 2008  4:59:02 pm GMT
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Enter the bios and change the sata mode to ATA from the default
   
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DJELITT, on Nov 18, 2008  4:30:32 am GMT
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UR THE MAN THANK U SO MUCH
   
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co0o yea, on Dec  7, 2008  7:28:47 pm GMT
THANK U SOOOO MUCH, i've been at my computer for hours trying to install xp now i can thanks to u... thanks u soooo much man.
   
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man, on Mar 31, 2009 12:32:50 pm BST
Thanks yar , It really working....
   
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suresh, on May 26, 2009 12:53:12 pm BST
Fool we can not change sata in bios because it is not showing
   
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Pavan, on Jul 15, 2009  6:03:24 pm BST
Hey you are the real tech man ...

thanks a lot for this post ... 

its working for me in the acer laptop

i sat for hours on that issue.. but your solutions is really working .l.... 



Thanks 

Pavan
   
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 SURYA, on Aug 24, 2009  2:27:35 pm BST
U r great man!. Like others I too faced a lot of problem with my laptop in installing WinXp on INSPIRON 1545. But this solution helped in seconds. God Bless u.
   
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caffeinedeath, on Nov 21, 2008  5:16:51 pm GMT
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You have to include sata drivers to xp cd to recognise the hard disk.you can run turbo c in vista using dosbox.
   
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LM, on Dec 11, 2008 11:31:19 pm GMT
Thank you, stokey1964!  That was the trick :)
   
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ram, on Dec 21, 2008  7:05:17 pm GMT
Thanks broooo i was struggling with the same problem hdd not recognised, but when i disabled sata from bios it worked , thanku dude
   
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WahGwan, on Dec 28, 2008  9:47:47 pm GMT
Lol, you really are the Dappa don!!! just spent hours fucking around with an external floppy drive and intel matrix drivers and all i really needed, was to make a few adjustments in the bios.

Bless you my friend! Bless youl.
   
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buttmonkey, on Jan  2, 2009 10:06:06 pm GMT
Thanks a million. I just spent 4 days trying to reinstall windows because of the freakin blue screen and was just about to give up and take to technician. I changed the SATA mode and worked straight away. Computers...Who needs 'em!
   
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questioner, on Jan 25, 2009  7:57:21 am GMT
Actually i m a begginer in computer. i not really understand the meaning of change SATA mode to ATA? can anyone explain step by step? thanks a million.
   
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tian6869, on Jan 30, 2009  4:40:41 pm GMT
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To enter BIO mode, after you power up the PC/computer/laptop/Notebook, press "F2" repeatly



after you enter the BIO mode, use the arrow keys to choose the menu and find SATA / ATA
   
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questioner, on Jan 30, 2009  5:04:16 pm GMT
Thank you. by the way, from this link http://pocket-sized.co.uk/how-to/19/downgrading-dell-inspiro­n-1525-windows-xp

i ask to {Once within the BIOS I went to "Onboard Devices", then down to the subcategory "Flash Cache Module" and turned this off.} Do u think I need to turn it off or just change the SATA to ATA directly?

thanks
   
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JR, on Aug 14, 2009  4:19:08 am BST
This worked!!!  Thank you so much, you saved me hours of work.  Add those SATA drivers to your XP installation CD.
   
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