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  1. Ok, so XP Pro installed fine, but a good bit of hardware isn't working. In the Device Manager, I have 7 devices in the "Other Devices" (aka Not Working) category: Ethernet Controller Mass Storage Controller PCI Device RTL8187_Wireless SM BUS Controller Video Controller Video Controller (VGA Compatible) If you go here you can see the drivers and components in the laptop. Here are some issues/thoughts I have on fixing the situation: 1)Go back to DriverPacks (see previous post), and include all of the driverpacks possible, and hope that they will install themselves if I reinstall XP. 2)The wireless driver on the gateway website (link provided) says vista only. Uh-oh. 3)The wireless card (according to gateway) was manufactured by a company called LiteOn, but I couldn't find any drivers on their website (I did send them an email though). 4)The network card may be shot (he says it hasn't worked since his power went out a few weeks ago). I'm thinking number one may do the trick..but I've learned a lot about installing XP here the past few days, so I'm thinking someone has a solution with a greater chance of working..
  2. Anyways, DriversPacks worked. Success! Har, har, har,..mine is an evil laugh! -You guys rock.
  3. If I'm not mistaken, XP Pro is x64. Though it could just be sketchy grammar, maybe it only means the Windows 2000 as being 32 bit. Oi Vey...
  4. From the driverpacks website: "It's an easy to use GUI to slipstream the DriverPacks into a 32-Bit Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003 source. Currently, "disc" (CD/DVD), "BartPE" Masstorage Plugin and "multibootDisc" platforms are supported." I'm using XP Pro, but I'll go ahead and give it a try.
  5. The XP install cd wasn't having anything to do with the hard drive with vista on there (why I can't conceive). I'll try the driver packs and get back here tomorrow.
  6. jstearns

    Long story

    Here's a long one for you. My friend bought a laptop (Gateway MX8738). He quickly found out that he wasn't a fan of Vista, so I said I would install XP Pro on it for him. I recently did something similar to this on a windows 98 computer for a relative, where I put in new parts (hard drive, ram, WLAN card), and installed windows xp pro perfectly fine. So it looked like a relatively easy task. I used DBAN/Nuke to wipe the hard drive, then I popped in the xp pro disc. Then I got an error. I googled around and found out I needed a SATA driver. Unfortunately, these have to be installed via floppy. The laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, so I slipstreamed the driver using nLite. I made a disc, and started to install. I got past the original error until I got another error telling me my driver was corrupted. (iaStor.sys) Then I found that I might have needed to change some drive configurations in the Bios (version 72.15). I've looked through it for a good half an hour and cannot find anything to do with the hard drive other than boot order. So the question is, am I screwed?
  7. jstearns

    Oi Vey

    I'm using nLite to install XP Pro SP2 onto a Vista machine, which I nuked the hard drive for. Upon copying the xp files to a new folder for modification, I keep getting these data loading errors, which are determined by a Data Redundancy Check. I would also get these errors if I tried to copy and paste the xp files straight from the CD to any other folder on the disk. What now?
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