Pre-Vista Installation on SATA
May 2nd, 2008
Okay, as promised I will be documenting the process of installing pre-Vista OS in a SATA drive. However, I will be documenting on a specific unit: Acer Aspire M1640.
PRE-REQUISITES:
- nLite
- Best for NF4-6 WHQL driverpack for XP (32bit) v1.8 (mirror)
- Windows XP/2K3 disc
- DVD Burner
STEPS:
- Copy all contents of the Microsoft Windows XP/2K3 in a local drive (i.e. C:\tmp\os).
- Extract the contents of the driver (Pre-req#2) in a local drive (i.e. C:\tmp\drv).
- Run nLite and follow the images below:
- Burn the .iso image into a blank disc.
- Insert the finished disc into the Aspire drive and install the operating system. Voila!
Another source: http://paparadit.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-sata-hard-drive-with-windows.html
10 Comments Add your own
1. Curtis said on
June 18th, 2008 at 1:07 AM
I tried to use your method for installing XP with the customized install disc on the exact same machine that you did it with (ACER M1640 desktop), and it will not start windows from the install CD/DVD.
It seems to load all the drivers. I see many ATA/RAID/SATA drivers being loaded, but as soon as it says it’s starting windows it comes back with an error and asks me to run some CHDSK/F or something. The drive checks out fine in vista.
I followed your directions exactly (three times).
Did you have to reformat the hard drive before you ran the installer perhaps?
2. aovaron said on
June 18th, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Actually I had to reformat the drive before I found this solution… so to answer your question, I did reformat. If you’re not going to use Vista at all, I strongly suggest reformatting and remove all partition that Acer created for you.
3. watsonaka said on
July 26th, 2008 at 12:33 AM
Thanks for the helpful guide. I have successfully created the disk. How exactly did you go about reformatting the drive?
Thanks Jack
4. aovaron said on
July 26th, 2008 at 7:40 AM
my neighborhood friend FDISK
5. JavinC said on
July 31st, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Where did you find the textmode driver for the m1640? I have the download from Acer however it did not include the txtsetup.oem file. Thanks.
6. JavinC said on
July 31st, 2008 at 7:10 PM
Nevermind…forgot to look at prerequisites. Thanks a ton! nLite is a cool program and adding the txtsetup.oem file allows XP disk to load correctly. Awesome.
7. watsonaka said on
July 31st, 2008 at 8:24 PM
aovaron. at the risk of sounding like an utter newb, how exactly did you fdisk? I have tried dban, UltimateBootCD & the USB boot drive at http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29726
No matter what I do I can not boot to any of these in the CD or usb. I was able to boot to gparted, but frankly I wasn’t sure what to do once I was in it. And gparted appeared to lock uop at one point so I shyed away from it. I can not boot to any XP CD either. I am starting to wonder if I just have a bad PC.
Finally, were you able to find the XP drivers, ie HD Audio & Nvidia network card?
Thanks for your advice.
Jack
8. aovaron said on
July 31st, 2008 at 9:00 PM
What I did was pulled out an old floppy drive from an old PC lying around and had to dig in for an old floppy then loaded FDISK in it.
9. watsonaka said on
July 31st, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Smart girl! I may do the same. Did you find all the drivers?
Thanks Jack
10. aovaron said on
July 31st, 2008 at 11:23 PM
My Gravatar seems to be very deceptive. I’m a guy :) hehe
See the PRE-REQUISITES for the driver. I don;t know if we have the same model, but if we do, then you can use the Textmode driver.
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