I have bought HP 2550EN PAVILION latpop. I cannot run some programs so decide to configure dual boot or downgrade..!

But it has phoenix BIOS, when contacted HP Support UAE, they gave no support regarding how to do this. This cannot be done..!

When I tried to boot with bootable XP SP2 cd having SATA drivers configured from f6fply32.exe by nlite software , even that the Hard drive is not detected by Windows XP OS.

So please advise how to downgrade or dual boot ?

Br,

Chirag

Hi,

Ensure that you do have the correct drivers for your hard drives SATA controller and put them onto a floppy disk, or perhaps a USB Stick.

When Windows XP setup starts press F6 so you can supply the drivers to Windows setup before hard drive detection.

The other way to do this would be to integrate the drivers into the Windows XP install CD using Bashrat's Driver Packs; to be honest this is the best solution as it may work better for your laptop if you don't have access to a floppy drive.

Kind Regards

Simon

One more thing to take in consideration: are you sure you have XP-compatible drivers?