Windows XP not installin!!

[prankie]

Tryin to install Windows Xp on my HP Pavillion DV6226, which came with Windows vista preinstalled... but on bootin frm cd following message comes-
"Setup did'nt find any harddisk on uour computer, setup cannot continue"
Plz help.. i need to install XP urgently....

 

[gauravakaasid]

disable native SATA support from BIOS, XP will install after that

 

[prankie]

thanks... the setup is runnin now,, but i wanna create a partition, plz suggest a freeware for vista....

 

[krates]

Go To Administrative Tools In Control Panel And Then Goto Disk Manager

In Windows Vista

 

[prankie]

Thanx a lot!!!

 

[gauravakaasid]

no probs...btw wats ur lappy config n wat was the price pinch?

 

[prankie]

it has Intel T5200 proci with 1GB ram and Geforce 7400 gfx card...
one more problem, the video driver is not installin, i tried the geforce 7 series driver but the setup says that the hardware is not supported...

 

[gauravakaasid]

^^send a pm to s18000rpm, he might know

 

[krates]

it has Intel T5200 proci with 1GB ram and Geforce 7400 gfx card...
one more problem, the video driver is not installin, i tried the geforce 7 series driver but the setup says that the hardware is not supported...

Update Windows Vista

 

[akkies_2000]

What is the memory of the Nvidia 7400 graphics card in HP dv6226(dedicated)? Do let us know if you were able to install WinXP with all drivers successfully and how.