Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Len Hammond
It's new enough to have the IDE emulation setting. Loading XP now. That was too easy! I expect this build to last less than a year, as I hope to take this church to Win7 sometime late next summer. We have to raise some funding for new licensing - shouldn't be too bad with Microsoft's "Charity" l

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+1 We have to do that here reasonably often. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: newer laptop and Windows xp XP works fine on SATA it's more likely a BIOS issue as mentioned. You can em

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Matthew W. Ross
l District - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:27:48 -0800 Subject: RE: newer laptop and Windows xp > I have a 3 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop with SA

Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Stephan Barr
XP works fine on SATA it's more likely a BIOS issue as mentioned. You can emulate PATA operation; check it out. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Len Hammond wrote: > Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account > I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. T

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Erik Goldoff
I have a 3 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop with SATA drive that runs XP , matter of fact I upgraded the 320gb drive to a 500gb drive and reinstalled XP just fine. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _ From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread Rene de Haas
Press F6 and load the sata drivers at the start of the setup. Hth Rene On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Len Hammond wrote: > Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account > I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open > license tickets fo

Re: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread MarvinC
Download nLite and the SATA drivers. Use nLite to build a bootable ISO containing those drivers. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Len Hammond wrote: > Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account > I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some

RE: newer laptop and Windows xp

2009-12-14 Thread John Aldrich
You might have to build an install with SATA drivers. I had to do that for a laptop. Or, tell the system to emulate PATA in the BIOS. Often times there's an option for that in the BIOS John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2