[somawanshi]

hi to all dear frds

*i have brought Acer 4710 laptop with 1.73 core2 processor,1GB RAM,160 GB harddisk..... it came with Linux preinstalled with only one drive....

*I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate now....
But it makes me so problems to run my Trading Terminal to deals with share market...

*i have complained regarding this to my service provider they said only solution is to have WinXp operating system.....

*I m having bootable CD of WinXp Ser.2. & I want it to installed on some other drive ..

During installation when setup just have to start it shows Windows can not find any hard drive installed

so pls help me to install WinXp.
I would like to have both ~OS together.

[crjdriver]

I put this in your own thread. Replying to a guide is NOT going to get you any help.

Next you need to have the controller driver for your xp install. If the mfg of the laptop does not have the driver available for download, you are pretty much out of luck. You can attempt to find out what chipset is used ie nvidia, intel, sis, etc and see if you can go to the site of the chipset maker and find a controller driver to download and install during the xp install. Note this is done via the F6 prompt at the start of setup.

Do check that the laptop maker has xp drivers available for download BEFORE you begin this task. If there are no drivers available, you are wasting your time.

[Rich-M]

If you are trying to install to an external drive that probably won't work. Can you partition the main drive?

[somawanshi]

dear frds thanks for ur replys

Actually i m having 5 partition
C =40GB
& D, E, F 30GB each respectively.

and i want to install my WinXp on D drive... just i have seen in Acer website there r drivers available for Windows Xp so can u help me....

proble is that the setup is not finding any harddrive in my laptop........

[somawanshi]

no body knows how to do it? everyone is facing this problem yaar...