Emachine Netbook Help

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  1. fauxpas

    fauxpas

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    I got an emachine em250. WinXP hangs on boot and will not boot regardless of choice... That's OK, I wanna reload windows anyhow...

    So I hook up a USB drive and try and reinstall XP but when it get to where you choose which partition you want windows to go, it shows nothing...??? hmmmm

    So I throw in a spare HDD I had lying around and it did the same thing...

    Any ideas?
     
    fauxpas, Feb 23, 2011
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    Swarvey Moderator

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    Check your BIOS settings for which mode the HDD is running in, either AHCI or IDE. If it's AHCI you'll need to grab nLite and integrate the text-mode SATA drivers to enable WinXP to use the interface. If this is beyond your current capabilities, you should be able to change to IDE mode and you shouldn't have a problem installing XP.
     
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