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post #21 of 32
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post

Do you currently have 2 drives on this machine? Try partition the 160GB into 2 partitions, one for 120GB and the rest, and see.
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NO

post #22 of 32
Quote:
Originally Posted by qhn View Post

Do you currently have 2 drives on this machine? Try partition the 160GB into 2 partitions, one for 120GB and the rest, and see.
cheers ...

 

NO

post #23 of 32
so ONE drive. Try the partition then?

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post #24 of 32
http://www.notebookforums.com/t/222654/how-to-install-xp-in-cq50-142us

Take a look at post #7 - this will help you slip-streaming XP on sata disk without partitioning it.

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post #25 of 32

but as if the shares do not recognize the disc, only when I turn on the pc at first but when when booting from the installation cd says there is no hard disk

post #26 of 32
That's normal for XP installation disk not recognizing SATA drive. You need:

a) sata driver or
b) slip-streaming XP installation disk or
c) use a Linux tool to partition the disk into smaller sizes before starting the XP installation

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post #27 of 32

I have to do all this procedure being that I have IDE disk?

post #28 of 32
...... thinking ...
post #29 of 32
http://support.alienware.com/Support_Pages/Restricted_Pages/driver_downloads_processed.aspx?os=WXP&cat=32&manu=8&item=831

drill down to M7700i Promise NON-RAID controller driver, download and follow the instruction as how to install it.

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post #30 of 32

Thanks for your help, I will follow the steps =)

post #31 of 32
Good luck. Please let us know how it turns out smile.gif

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post #32 of 32
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Originally Posted by Lunemus View Post

Hello, I got a alienware m7700 d900t

-P4 3,8GHZ
-2 gb ram
-2x hitachi 120 gb hard drive ( raid 0)
- OS (???)

I'm trying to install windows 7 home primium 32 bits in this laptop.But when I run the installation disk, and click on "custom(advance)" I don't see any driver available for installing. My hard drive is clean i gparted it befor trying to install windows 7.When i put a usb flash on a usb port it reads it but not my hard drives.

I had an idea and try to instal windows 7 on another pc with my laptop hard drives. Installation Worked perfectly. i managed to boot it and run windows 7!

Hoping everything will be fine i put back the hard drive that run windows 7 well back  into my laptop. It boot up but at the start logo of microsft it freeze a while and i get a fast blue screen and it loops.

Here the things i tryied:

- Look at bios if it see hard drives (working well)
-formated once again
- tried on raid mode
-tried on ata mode
-tried to put a usb flash to see if it reads it( it does but not hard drives)
-tried installing ubuntu(linux) in my laptop ( Works and run perfectly)


Anyone has an idea or a solution that can solve this problem?

I'm running out of ideas how to put windows 7 . Please help ty





I load windows 7 on my m7700 dt9 . By loading the xp non raid driver on a USB drive. Start the laptop to install the os when it can't find the hard drive load the xp driver from the USB drive. Will detect hard drive load windows 7 when it going to soft reboot hold the the power button to shut off the laptop. Take the USB drive off start the laptop should finish install windows 7.
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