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Going back to XP

‎12-07-2008 05:56 PM

HP Pavilion dv9500

Intel(R) Core(TM) 2Duo CPU T5250 @1.50GHz

Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB

32-bit operating system

 

Windows Vista Home-Premium

Service Pack 1

 

 

After many disappointments and gastritis, I have decided to return to XP until MicroSoft comes out with a better product.

I tried to format my laptop with my XP CD, but  the formatting option won't appear. Can you please help me ?

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Re: Going back to XP

‎12-07-2008 07:02 PM

On Intel Chipset laptops with SATA hdd,you have to supply the driver_either using F6 option and a USB Floppy or my preferred method of slipstreaming the driver and burning a new XP cd.

This is the sata driver for your machine:

 


Download and run it,make a floppy OR cancel floppy creation.The files will be extracted to C:\Swsetup\sp37005 to use with Nlite.

You can use Nlite to integrate the drivers into a new XP install cd.Nlite will even burn the new XP cd.
Very easy really,just follow one of the guides below.

Nlite download:

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