re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 6:37 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dean (113 messages posted) This was bought at Best Buy and didn't come with restore / Vista disks , also tried Best Buy and they don't keep records of serial #'s either , which is why I'm trying to load the XP . How do I get the XP disk to recognize the sata drive ? Thanks , Dean On Friday, June 5, 2009 at 7:52 pm, Steve wrote: >Just another thought, if the Drive is a SATA Drive, then a XP install Disk may not >see it. Try booting from your Vista DVD, and see if it finds the Drive. Written in response to: re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Steve: Friday, June 5, 2009 at 7:52 pm) Responses to this message: re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Steve: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 7:07 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dean: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 4:37 am) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 7:19 am) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dean: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 7:46 am) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Ricer46: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 2:36 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dean: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 4:24 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Mark: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 7:39 am) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (MartinM: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 12:39 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Steve: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 4:44 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dean: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 7:32 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Steve: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 7:45 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Steve: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 7:52 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dean: Sat, Jun 6, 2009, 6:37 am) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Steve: Sat, Jun 6, 2009, 7:07 am) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Jacob6601: Fri, Jun 5, 2009, 11:21 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dean: Thu, Jun 11, 2009, 6:02 am) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Mary: Sat, Jun 13, 2009, 2:44 pm) re: Gateway laptop serial numbers rubbed off - can't get drivers (Dean: Sat, Jun 13, 2009, 6:07 pm) To Geoff (Dean: Tue, Jun 23, 2009, 4:36 am) re: To Geoff (davidn7: Tue, Jul 7, 2009, 10:15 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum