trueblue2122
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Hello All, hope you can help...
I'm purchasing a Acer Emachines e520 which has a SATA harddrive set to ACHI.
The laptop comes with Vista but I want to delete this and install Windows XP Pro. I read on a review website that to do this I have to set the Harddrive from ACHI to IDE before doing this. How would I go about that?
By the way the quote from the website I mentioned is below
http://devoracles.com/acer-emachines...ock-this-world
"As always with AHCI enabled hard drives, you have to switch to IDE mode before you can install XP. After you switched to IDE mode, installing any OS is straight forward."
Thanks
I'm purchasing a Acer Emachines e520 which has a SATA harddrive set to ACHI.
The laptop comes with Vista but I want to delete this and install Windows XP Pro. I read on a review website that to do this I have to set the Harddrive from ACHI to IDE before doing this. How would I go about that?
By the way the quote from the website I mentioned is below
http://devoracles.com/acer-emachines...ock-this-world
"As always with AHCI enabled hard drives, you have to switch to IDE mode before you can install XP. After you switched to IDE mode, installing any OS is straight forward."
Thanks