2 posts tagged “computers”

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?

Tommorrow is going to hurt. It already does, seeing as I cannot spell the word.

I have Communication Technologies and Intro to Computers. The latter being I don't need, and the first (need a fancy word!) something that will be a trip back in time. Learning about old technologies like TV and radio should be a laughing matter, but thus they keep pushing it on us. Maybe I can use new media to my advantage. And show off my photoshop skills...

Though the Liquify Filter will yet again come to my defeat. Everyone uses it and thinks they are nice. I need to learn a new trick other than my little gradient lines matrix spider web. But that's besides the point. *runs to do laundry*