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re: stop error Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:34 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Boot from the XP CD, and delete the Hard Drive Partitions, and see if that gets you going. You also might have a SATA Controller Problem, since most Vista PC's now have SATA Hard Drives, and XP doesn't have many drivers for the SATA Controllers. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:43 am Posted by Paula (6 messages posted) okay then, I'll try probably one of these days. thank you very much and GodBless, and yeah my hard drive is SATA, [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:48 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Read up on Installing XP on SATA Drives. Many good tutorials on the Internet. It can sometimes be a bit daunting on some New Computers because of the Driver problems. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:48 am Posted by Paula (6 messages posted) uhhm, you've said that I may have some problems on sata controllers and some xp doesn't have much controllers on sata, does that mean I cannot install xp on my laptop at all? what are the possible ways for me to install xp on my laptop? thanks! --one more thing, whenever I try to reformat, as it boots from cd, it doesn't reach the partitioning part, the error occurs early (probably 3-5 minutes after booting). thanks and sorry for the disturbance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:59 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) If XP doesn't see the Drive, then that is because it has no Driver for the Controller. Since Laptops don't have Floppy Drives, to load Drivers at a start of the Install, you don't have a easy way to install XP. Some Laptops have a Bios setting to make SATA Drives look like a pata Drive. I have never seen one myself though, so can't offer any more help on that. You can also sometimes make a New XP Install CD with the SATA Controller Driver Slipstreamed into the CD with a program called nlite. However the Laptop Manufacture would need to provide a Driver to Download for that. I have seen a few that don't offer the Driver for some reason. I could also just suggest you just learn to Live with Vista if you don't enjoy playing around with stuff like this. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:03 am Posted by Paula (6 messages posted) awts, well I see. that hurts, but anyways thank you for all the information you told me. Probably, I will contact the dealer of my laptop or ask for more tips. I really need XP because some apps I need aren't running on vista. thanks a lot and GodBless :D [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 6:03 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Visit The Manufacture Web Site of the Laptop. If they offer XP Drivers for your model then it can be done. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 6:58 am Posted by Paula (6 messages posted) Again, thanks! :D God Bless [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 8:03 am Posted by jbmcmillan (1055 messages posted) The problem is not the sata drive but the "mode" the controller is using.Some laptops have an option to change the mode in the bios.It is most likely using AHCI mode as it enables power saving features built into the drives firmware.Your bios may include the option of changing that mode to "normal" or ide mode which will not require drivers during the install of XP.Even if your bios allows you to change modes I would still check the manufacturers web site for drivers for the chipset ,ethernet,sound etc..for XP.If it is a recent model it won't likely have XP drivers and you will have to go looking for XP drivers from the 3rd party manufacturers of the components.All in all I would stick to Vista and learn how to make it better for your particular usage needs. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stop error Friday, September 18, 2009 at 3:04 am Posted by Paula (6 messages posted) well, I see. Hopefully changing the mode into normal would give way for me to use XP again. thank you very much and GodBless. (I don't think my laptop is the latest model) :D [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum