Vista, XP & 240 Gig HDD

[manuraj.dhanda]

Hii Guyz,

I just bought a Dell Inspiron with Vista pre-installed on it. It has 240 Gig HDD. Now when I try to install XP, then during the installation of XP, installer is not able to find any HDD on my PC.

Anyone of you who can help me out here.
Thanks.

 

[Swiblet]

Open up the computer and check to make sure that the drive is plugged in right. Maybe a cable got partly unplugged inside during the shipping.

~~Ben

 

[manuraj.dhanda]

Open up the computer and check to make sure that the drive is plugged in right. Maybe a cable got partly unplugged inside during the shipping.

~~Ben

It's a notebook. And as I said, Vista is pre-installed, So there is no case that there might be any installation issue(hardware) with the hdd like cable unplugged stuff.

Thanks.

 

[Swiblet]

Then it looks like something is wrong with your motherboard. Hoorah. I suggest you ask for an exchange.

You know, some computers just are made specifically so you can't upgrade - so you have to buy a whole new notebook/computer when you want anything changed. For instance, I have a Compaq Presario. The only way to reinstall my XP is to use a recovery partition which must be installed with a CD and it takes like 5 hours to do so. If I install Vista, I no longer have any kind of backup of my stuff because, as customer support says, "the installation of a new operating system destroys the recovery partition. You should not upgrade your computer. We have computers with Vista Premium on sale for 600 dollars."

~~Ben

 

[Christopher]

What is the model number of the computer?

We have computers with Vista Premium on sale for 600 dollars."

:rant2:

 

[DefecTalisman]

Not that it helps much, but maybe you should get on the line with dell support.

I got a new HP lappy and wanted to downgrade from vista to xp. Before doing so I contacted HP's great support service and they told it to me straight. You will have loss of functionality, we wont support it anymore and the drivers is another story.

 

[Swiblet]

That's HP/Compaq for ya >.< *shakes head* I actually have it worse, actually! Compaqs are the "lower-line HPs". It is even LESS covered!!! Isn't that ridiculous?

~~Ben

 

[DefecTalisman]

It is all to force the market to move to the latest OS. I have no grudge with it now as vista has great support via Microsoft Communities.

 

[Swiblet]

I think it's the computer companies' plan to make people buy new computers every time they want to switch operating systems!!

"sorry, you can't upgrade. Buy a new one!"
"Oh no, you can't install a new hard drive. The old one is melded with the motherboard. Buy a new one!"
"You like chicken? Buy a new one!"

That's the way those crooks work >=(

~~Ben

 

[manuraj.dhanda]

I just bought it and am in no mood to buy a new one again. I bought this huge space hdd (240Gig) so that I could install multiple operating systems on it. But, as I said, XP installer simply doesn't identify my hard drive. Very strange behaviour.

Manu.

 

[bigmanbfa2]

do you have a 240Gig SATA2 drive???

if your drive is SATA, XP won't have the drivers for it. SATA came out AFTER XP thus you will need your own driver floppy. When you start the installation hit F6 when it prompts for the addition of other device drivers and then load your SATA drivers.

 

[cozyroom]

can you imagine I am still working on 2000, oh well I should upgrade soon but I am not sure about the vista