Install Windows XP On HP Pavilion dv60000

Hi Guys... I got a new laptop from HP 2.2 Core2Due, 2 GB DDR2 RAM bla bla bla...
but the problem is that I cant install windows XP on it....
Sorry But Windows Vista ***** Really I mean I cant feel that I'm using a 2.2 with 2GB ram laptop...
I was trying to find the option in BIOS to disable SATA Drives but I cant find it...

can you please help me with it..

Regards
Raffi George
MCPD

 

If you can't disable SATA Native Support (that is what it's actualy called) in the BIOS (and in many of the HP notebooks this is not possible) then you should either slipstream the drivers onto an XP cd with nLite, or try to load them during install from an external floppy or USB stick if that is at all possible.

The drivers you'll need are in the chipset, which you can get from here:

http://tinyurl.com/yh8xf7

To exctract the drivers from the softpaq, install WinRAR or 7zip, right click the file and extract. Since I myself never slipstreamed an XP cd, I unfortunatly cannot tell you exactly what to do, but my guess would be you'll want the nvata.inf file from there.

All other drivers you need are here:

http://tinyurl.com/yg56wk

Good luck!

 

Thanks

Hi Mate thanks for your help... but the problem is that its the Company Laptop and I dont want to mess around with it...
So I think I will try to put Vista Home Basic On It... hope it will be better...

 

Well you can always try as long as you have your recovery discs burned. You can always go back to the OS it came with. Plus if you want to make Vista a bit lighter on the system you can always disable some stuff, like aero view, Windows Search (indexing service) and Superfetch. But that is on your own risk!