I need XP drivers for R20

I have toshiba laptop satalite with 2 operation windows 2000 and HP windows running thus slowing the system down consiradably. Idealy would like to delete the windows 2000 professinal. Please help

Hello,

Here is what you need to do to install XP on your laptop that came with Vista or Win 7.

If your hard drive is SATA (pretty much standard these days) you will need to search the manufacturer's site for a floppy disk SATA driver install package.* You will need a USB floppy drive for installing XP.
* Copy the SATA drivers (should be denoted as "F6 drivers" or similar) to a blank disk.
* Have the USB drive connected. It should automatically map as A:\.
* Go into BIOS and find a setting for ACPI Compatible and set on.
* Now install XP normally from the CDROM, and when it says "press F6 to install third-party drivers", press F6 and follow the options to get the SATA drivers from the disk.
* Complete setup as normal.

or

You can check the following link for more detailed info.

Thanks !!

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Hello,

Here is what you need to do to install XP on your laptop that came with Vista or Win 7.

If your hard drive is SATA (pretty much standard these days) you will need to search the manufacturer's site for a floppy disk SATA driver install package.* You will need a USB floppy drive for installing XP.
* Copy the SATA drivers (should be denoted as "F6 drivers" or similar) to a blank disk.
* Have the USB drive connected. It should automatically map as A:\.
* Go into BIOS and find a setting for ACPI Compatible and set on.
* Now install XP normally from the CDROM, and when it says "press F6 to install third-party drivers", press F6 and follow the options to get the SATA drivers from the disk.
* Complete setup as normal.

or

You can check the following link for more detailed info.

Thanks !!

Please rate the solution if it helps you.

Your problem is that XP does not recognize the SATA drive.Here is a link for the Acer 5315 that explains what you need to do for XP to see the drive http://soulpass.com/2007/11/10/installing-windows-xp-professional-sp2-on-acer-aspire-5315-2153-laptop/
Here is a link to the XP drivers that you will need http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_3680.html The Intel drivers from the first link should work with your laptop
If you don't have a USB floppy drive you will need to create your own CD with Nlite http://www.nliteos.com/
Have installed XP on my daughters 3680 so it can be done.

your laptop has a sata harddisk if u have to install windowxp u need a sata hard disk driver then u can install in your laptop xp if u have have black xp there is option on it if ur using normol version of xp then u need a sata driver & u need one usb floppy drive u have make floppy of sata driver during the install u there is option came on when installation start of xp u have press f6 key & load sata driver from the floppy dirvie thne u can install in your laptop xp

go here and download the drivers that you need for xp ....
http://global.acer.com/support/index.htm
put them on a usb flash drive and transfer them to the laptop... use a usb mouse to access give you a mouse on the acer and install the drivers ... reboot and all should work... there is one issue... is that is a very new computer that had vista pre-installed ??
sometimes they are not reverse compatable for operating systems... i've tried putting xp on my compaq desktop computer and there are no xp drivers for some of the devices.

Robert

You have to put the windows disk in, and then shut down computer. Make sure the laptop is set to boot from cd. Then follow the on screen instructions.
PS BACK UP ALL YOUR IMPORTANT FILES BEFORE INSTALLING / REFORMATTING WINDOWS!
HOPE THIS HELPS

yu need to go to the the bios before you start the installation and change the Sata hard disk mode to IDE.then it will detect the hard disk.

calling you no. I am a belkin partner. are you needing drivers for the usb device

Hi,
I just got my 5720-4126 so once I had to test the Factory re-install (ALT-F10 at the ACER screen) and knew I could get back to where I started (Vista), tried to install XP from CD. It couldn't even see the disk drive :-(