Going from Vista to XP ~.~;

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Isollde

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Is a fucking pain in the ass. Anyway, I found all my drivers for XP, no prob, but now I run the install dsc, restart laptop and it tells me:

"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer"

What the fuck does that mean? ~.~

I am not computer savvy, but I can pretty much follow directions. Please any assistance would be appreciated.

My Laptop is a Gateway (Model MX8738)

Help prs~ X.x;;;
 
you have to boot the disc, instead of booting the os then running the disc natively.

in laymans terms, you need to figure out in what order your pc starts from, this means,

it takes an order from what to boot:

1. hd
2. cd
3. floppy

meaning, it boots from the hd, if there is no hd it boots from cd, if there is no cd, it boots from floppy

either, switch cd to #1, or press the key needed at the boot screen to get to boot select (this key varies for each model, it might be.. del, esc, tab, f8, f10, f2)

put the cd in, select cd rom drive as the boot device to load from, hit enter, and etc
 
Ah, the many reasons why it's generally not recommended to DOWNGRADE (get the fuck out with that "cute" upgrade crap) from Vista to XP at this point.

I'd be willing to wager half the reasons you don't like Vista are probably either

1. You're doin' it wrong

...that's about it.

I could be wrong but I deal with peoples' "vista problems" 40 hours a week and 90% of them are just people not knowing what they're doing.

What made you want to downgrade to XP?


edit: Sorry to sound like a dick but I deal with people that have "vista problems" that aren't issues with the operating system at all, or are fixable in about five minutes all freaking day.
 
Tagrineth said:
Ah, the many reasons why it's generally not recommended to DOWNGRADE (get the fuck out with that "cute" upgrade crap) from Vista to XP at this point.

I'd be willing to wager half the reasons you don't like Vista are probably either

1. You're doin' it wrong

...that's about it.

I could be wrong but I deal with peoples' "vista problems" 40 hours a week and 90% of them are just people not knowing what they're doing.

What made you want to downgrade to XP?


edit: Sorry to sound like a dick but I deal with people that have "vista problems" that aren't issues with the operating system at all, or are fixable in about five minutes all freaking day.
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I don't really appreciate the asshole attitude. My dad builds computers and dealswith vista and xp all the time. The programs I need tto run don't work properly in vista. it's not because I'm DOING IT WRONG as you say. It's just that they aren't compatable. I've had my dad look at it, because I though maybe it was something on my part but he confirmed itjust doesn't like vista.

my graphic drivers takes a shit on a regular basis, which makes working in anytthing pretty impossible. It's a new laptop, i check for viruses often, so I know it's not that I'm doing something wrong.

kthx.
 
Isollde said:
I don't really appreciate the asshole attitude. My dad builds computers and dealswith vista and xp all the time. The programs I need tto run don't work properly in vista. it's not because I'm DOING IT WRONG as you say. It's just that they aren't compatable. I've had my dad look at it, because I though maybe it was something on my part but he confirmed itjust doesn't like vista.

my graphic drivers takes a shit on a regular basis, which makes working in anytthing pretty impossible. It's a new laptop, i check for viruses often, so I know it's not that I'm doing something wrong.

kthx.
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What're the programs you're trying to run?

Also, what's the model of the laptop? It's extremely weird that the stock graphics driver would crap out like that, I guarantee that's not something with the operating system itself since as I said I deal with peoples' Vista systems on a regular basis and that's actually a new one to me.

It's possible Vista just needs to be reinstalled to fix that one, which is sometimes needed depending on how accurate the imaging process went at the factory when it was put together (yeah, they don't use a 100% accurate method for creating the hard drives for these things... but it's been that way since '95).
 
Autodesk Maya both the Personal Learning Edition and the actual full program Maya. Photoshop CS3, & Illustrator CS3 crashes all the time because of the graphics card, and FFXI. (No I don't run all these programs at once).
 
Isollde said:
Autodesk Maya both the Personal Learning Edition and the actual full program Maya. Photoshop CS3, & Illustrator CS3 crashes all the time because of the graphics card, and FFXI. (No I don't run all these programs at once).
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Autodesk Maya 7 or higher should work in Vista, as long as you have a working graphics driver (hahaha, whoops.). May need to set Vista to run it in XP compatibility mode but everything I'm reading suggests that Maya 7 should work, and 8+ will definitely work.

Likewise Photoshop & Illustrator CS3. If you get them installed successfully they should work, I haven't even read about them running badly in Vista just that they may require an extra step to install which if you have them installed you should be fine.

I think the whole crux of the issue is the graphics driver thing which may just require the OS to be reinstalled.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it a little unneccessary to reinstall an entire OS for the graphics driver? If you could please explain to me why this is needed, I would appreciate it. I've always been under the assumption with drivers on windows you can uninstall/reinstall as you wish.

I would definately recommend just trying to reinstall the latest video driver from the gateway website before reinstalling the OS (unless you're shooting for a clean rebuild anyway). Here, I even looked it up for you:
http://support.gateway.com/support/...ver Version: Intel 7.14.10.1147&uid=200453021
 
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Carste, the thing is she'd already done that multiple times.

Which points to one of two things - an OS component not being installed properly (VERY possible) or a video card/motherboard failure (not likely).
 
I run all of those programs currently on vista 64 bit home premium without any issues, so I'd follow Tag's advice about figuring out the root of the issue first.

Edit: Wow, looked up the specs on that laptop... If you haven't upgraded the RAM, there's no way in hell that 1gb with vista will run Maya. Hell, with 2 on XP it's still a bit slow... On top of that the proc is really mediocre, and the graphics card is 224 of shared memory. None of those are conducive to running advanced video/photo editing software regardless of operating system. I'd really like to know if you got the model number right.
 
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Well, based on the specs they should be able to run acceptably I'd say. I mean she'd probably have some slowdown with larger files but I remember running Photoshop on systems at my high school that had between 256MB and 512MB RAM without too many issues... but that was for smaller files.

Upgrading to 2GB is generally a good idea though. ^^;
 
Tagrineth said:
Well, based on the specs they should be able to run acceptably I'd say. I mean she'd probably have some slowdown with larger files but I remember running Photoshop on systems at my high school that had between 256MB and 512MB RAM without too many issues... but that was for smaller files.

Upgrading to 2GB is generally a good idea though. ^^;
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I hope you mean with XP. Either way, her best course of action with the pc as is would be to downgrade to XP.
 
XP probably doesn't have your SATA drivers built into the disc. You need to download the SATA drivers for your machine and either put them on a floppy or like a USB flash drive. The flashdrive or the USB floppy drive needs to be attached to the computer when it is powered on, then when you boot to the XP disc, press F6 when the blue screen first appears to load a 3rd party driver (it actually tells you to do this at the bottom of the screen). It will load a lot of the default XP drivers, then ask you which driver you want to load, and it will read whatever is on your flashdrive in the root (like F:\> or something) or the root of the CD drive and let you choose which driver you want to load. If you select the right driver, XP should find your harddrive and you can then continue to install the OS.
 
About my ram: I have 2.4 Gigs of RAM in my laptop so that isn't the problem.

Euphacent said:
XP probably doesn't have your SATA drivers built into the disc. You need to download the SATA drivers for your machine and either put them on a floppy or like a USB flash drive. The flashdrive or the USB floppy drive needs to be attached to the computer when it is powered on, then when you boot to the XP disc, press F6 when the blue screen first appears to load a 3rd party driver (it actually tells you to do this at the bottom of the screen). It will load a lot of the default XP drivers, then ask you which driver you want to load, and it will read whatever is on your flashdrive in the root (like F:\> or something) or the root of the CD drive and let you choose which driver you want to load. If you select the right driver, XP should find your harddrive and you can then continue to install the OS.
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This right here is exactly what is happening because i went to lolbestbuy XD and thats wha they told me as well.

Gonna go with what Tag said and try and reinstall Vista first
 
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