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July 18th, 2007 05:00

XP on Latitude D630

Hi,
 
I have just purchased a Latitude d630 with Vista Business.  I want to install XP on it, but when I go through the setup to install XP it comes up that the hard drive cannot be found.  However it boots to Vista fine.  Are these machines 'locked' to Vista? Is there something in the bIOS i need to change to allow me to install XP?
 
Thanks!
 
Steven
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    Grumpf_be

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    Posted July 18th, 2007 11:00

    Do you have a password on the HDD at boot? If yes remove it.
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    Trixrnt4kids

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    Posted October 17th, 2007 21:00

    Probably too late to help, but I've had to set the Flash Cache Module to off and set the SATA Operation to ATA in the BIOS before I could install XP.
    Pretty sure my laptop doesn't actually have a Flash Cache Module, but it came from the factory with it turned on.
     
     
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    sawaddi

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    Posted October 18th, 2007 02:00

    You need the SATA drivers for the initial stage of the install (F6).  They come on the later Dell XP CD so you must have an old version or the retail version.  You can install them from a USB drive.

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