Hi!
My hubby just bought me a Compaq Presario from Kijiji. He got that one thinking it had XP on it but it has Vista [which I LOATHE]. I starting following the instructions on how to install XP onto a Vista machine and got as far as successfully creating the partition for XP to go on and then that was that. Of course everyone else that had troubles were getting a "hard drive not recognized" or something similar. I'm getting a "These System Recovery CD's do NOT support this Compaq pc model. Press any key to continue."
I went into BIOS to check the bootup order as the instructions said to change the order from the Vista drive to the newly created XP drive. The XP drive was not listed, nor was the other partition I created and I can no longer get into the BIOS through either cold or regular boot ups. It does load into Vista, though. I never got to change the whole SATA thing as I didn't have what everyone was talking about and no option for changing it to IDE, so I didn't want to mess around with it. There's SATA stuff listed, but not the exact wording as per instructions. Since I can't get into the BIOS now, I can't tell you exactly what I do have anymore.
One thing that no forum actually specifies: since Microsoft no longer gives the actual Installation CD's anymore, only the Recovery ones, is that what my whole setback is? It's not a "full" installation and therefore I was doomed to fail in this endeaver before I even started? If it is still possible, can someone please help figure this out? There's absolutely nothing on that puter so no need to explain any backup info; I'd just wipe the whole flipping thing, but it won't let me without an O/S on it :rolleyes:
I won't go into the whole spec's of the puter in case I was doomed to fail in the first place so no one wastes their time reading all that.
My hubby just bought me a Compaq Presario from Kijiji. He got that one thinking it had XP on it but it has Vista [which I LOATHE]. I starting following the instructions on how to install XP onto a Vista machine and got as far as successfully creating the partition for XP to go on and then that was that. Of course everyone else that had troubles were getting a "hard drive not recognized" or something similar. I'm getting a "These System Recovery CD's do NOT support this Compaq pc model. Press any key to continue."
I went into BIOS to check the bootup order as the instructions said to change the order from the Vista drive to the newly created XP drive. The XP drive was not listed, nor was the other partition I created and I can no longer get into the BIOS through either cold or regular boot ups. It does load into Vista, though. I never got to change the whole SATA thing as I didn't have what everyone was talking about and no option for changing it to IDE, so I didn't want to mess around with it. There's SATA stuff listed, but not the exact wording as per instructions. Since I can't get into the BIOS now, I can't tell you exactly what I do have anymore.
One thing that no forum actually specifies: since Microsoft no longer gives the actual Installation CD's anymore, only the Recovery ones, is that what my whole setback is? It's not a "full" installation and therefore I was doomed to fail in this endeaver before I even started? If it is still possible, can someone please help figure this out? There's absolutely nothing on that puter so no need to explain any backup info; I'd just wipe the whole flipping thing, but it won't let me without an O/S on it :rolleyes:
I won't go into the whole spec's of the puter in case I was doomed to fail in the first place so no one wastes their time reading all that.