Hi All,

I am having an issue installing windows xp in my netbook which comes with a preinstalled windows 7. I am using a usb drive to do this, following this guide:

Now I am able to format my usb drive to enter the windows setup, yes. But.... when I am asked to select which partition to install windows, nothing is listed. Not even the partition where windows 7 is installed.

I have a stupid question, is it because there is no empty partition? But there are other partitions in the harddisk which are kept for recovery purposes etc. Why none of the partitions are being shown? Am I doing anything wrongly?

Thanks sifus!

Post a screenshot if possible..using a camera of course

Because your hard drive is set to SATA mode instead of IDE in the BIOS. Windows XP only recognizes a hard drive when its in IDE mode.
Windows Vista and above recognizes SATA mode so you wouldn't have the same issue if installing them.

As for how to solve your problem, in most BIOS, your able to change the mode the hard drive is configured to run in. Unfortunately your Mini doesn't have this option.
So you have to slipstream the SATA drivers (which can be downloaded from Intel ) in the XP installation image using nLite. Try to google this, you'll find guides all over

This post has been edited by 3shen: Dec 21 2010, 01:55 AM

If that is the case it will show that there is no drive..that is why I asked TS to post screenshot whether it is the screen that shows there is no HDD detected or after that

Thanks guys for guiding me to the correct direction. I am reading about nlite now.

No need to slipstream it..seriously it is not worth the time
Instead go to your BIOS and find an option where you can change from AHCI to IDE..that should solve your problem and you can format like normal

I have formatted a HP Mini 210 before, there isnt an option to change the modes like i mentioned in my post. Made an error there with the "does"

This post has been edited by 3shen: Dec 21 2010, 01:56 AM

Yes, I can confirm that too. No option to change it. I have already slipstreamed the driver. Now let's see if it works...

Guys, it doesn't work. Still not detecting my HDD. I installed the driver for NM10 which should be correct. But after selecting my usb drive as the source, instead of creating a new ISO, I just slipstreamed the driver in. Like that can ar?

This post has been edited by jason83: Dec 21 2010, 01:59 AM

If that is the case then I'd rather ghost it than slipstream..a lot of hassle to slipstream

What is ghost?

Maybe I shouldn't have recommended ghosting..it is easy if you have everything in place but definitely not an option for you
You can try formatting to Windows 7 again..it should not prompt you for any SATA drivers

It works now guys. Instead of directly slipping stream to my usb, I copied over the files to a local drive before slipping stream. It works after that.

Now I need to partition my harddisk.

Edit: Guys, I managed to enter the setup. After setup copies the files required for installation, it reboots and when setup starts, it says Access Denied, something about the access denied for the i386/asms folder. Any advice?

This post has been edited by jason83: Dec 22 2010, 11:52 PM

im also want to format my hp mini, using wintoflash, i cant see my partition in the setup, how to solve this?

me use WIN 7 ULTIMATE 7600 using winsetupfromusb..got no problem de

you can try this method:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Oper...M10/td-p/253374

Quite troublesome but it should work.

You need to slipstream the SATA driver into the Windows image.
XP is very old already.

u also can try ghost..
first u need to download ghost image

not because of old using xp much more fast then using 7 starter since run on 1gb ram only i want to surf google also take time.

The problem is the drivers for XP are very rare.
You have to find them out.

Anyway, did you try the slipstream?
I believe there is a stuck thread on top in this forum.

yeah, i already follow the guide given, all is okay now,
the problem is just the graphic media accelerator drivers GMA. its stuck there.

You are stuck because you don't have the right graphic driver for your netbook Windows XP.
You netbook only having 1GB RAM, consider to upgrade it to 2GB since RAM price are dirt cheap nowadays.