How To Downgrade Windows Vista to Windows XP | No Hard Drive Detect

Posted by dennis

April 5, 2009

How to downgrade Windows Vista to XP for New buy computer?that is the number one question for computer users still want use XP OS. Windows Vista is now our commonly used Operating System and in fact once you buy a new computer Vista is bundle OS but still many computer users recognize Windows XP. I think more of you want to downgrade Windows Vista to Windows XP, because using XP is less complicated and run our computer much faster. The other thing is for big company, they need to upgrade their equipment before they can apply Windows Vista and a lot expenses to be sacrifice.

But to downgrade Windows Vista is not easy as you wishes , especially this is the first time you encounter the problem. What problem? No hard drive appear while setting up OS but on the BIOS the HDD is recognized. You try everything !change the Hard drive to IDE hard drive but still no HDD to setup OS.

Here is the sample screenshot appear in your screen:

Solution:

Just Go to Bios and change AHCI to IDE or Change Sata Mode to IDE Mode. That’s it

But if you encounter no Sata or AHCI to change to IDE Mode, just like Acer Aspire M1641 Desktop. Go and visit this site, they provide you complete information how to solve that problem.

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Click Here : Solution 2

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