Ian Betts

Well if you do not have a a bootable XP CD your floppy start up disks will
only give you a driver for the CD and a doss prompt to run fdisk. This will
not make your XP CD recognize the SATA so you will need a bootable XP. But
why not run the Vista.


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Ian

"Ender14" <Ender14@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2AEE66AE-928C-4229-AE6A-517772CB9CB6@microsoft.com...
>I am running Vista Home Premium 64bit. Due to compatibility issues and
>things
> just not working correctly, I want to replace Vista with XP Pro. When I
> put
> my XP disc in, the option to install XP is grayed out and I can't select
> it.
> Is there any way around this?
>
> My XP disc is so old it is not bootable, nor does it contain SP1. I would
> just wipe the hard drive and use the boot floppy discs I have, but I don't
> know if my antique version of XP will recognize my SATA hard drive.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>