xp on vista laptop?

[strikegun]

well, i got a gateway mx8734 for graduation and every time i play WoW, my screen flickers every few mins making it really hard to play. ive tried all the solutions that were given to me and i finally decided to just install xp on my laptop. every time i got to install xp though, i am told that the hard drive was not found on the xp setup screen. i looked up the problem and saw that people said that its because the hard drive is sata adn you need to make a special setup disk with the sata drivers.

can anyone help me on that?

[Riznarf]

not sure, try reformatting the HDD, i run xp on a vista laptop just fine though.

(im running a dell m1210 xps)

and sata is how its connected to your mobo, its most likely formatted in ntfs

[saltynay]

strange the xp cd should have the drivers for the sata drive pre installed on the disk is it an old disk???

you could try a program called gparted its a linux boot cd that is exclusively a partition managing program reformat the previous rive using that and then try an install xp

[psp_crazy1]

get ubuntu and use the disk managemant program, i think it;s gparted, not sure. but the gparted disk doesn't work with the p965 series

[saltynay]

well most linux distro's have gparted built in Its just the gparted disk is quicker to burn and write to cd then a whole distro

[strikegun]

well, i decided to dual boot my system, but im having problems finding the SATA Native Support in my bios. ayone know where it is, cause its not on my bios =/.