"willzxp" <willzxp******.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> Iam seeking help desperately everywhere. I have a Sony vaio
> VGN-NR110E laptop currently with vista. Iam trying to downgrade it to
> XP, but when I get to installing windows it says it cannot detect hard
> drive, please help
>
> *I have read about SATA and all those stuff floppy disk drive
> everything. But i dont understand any of them and how do I know if i
> have a SATA harddrive or not?

That model appears to have a SATA drive. It's easy to check; open the
drive door and pull the drive out. If it has two rows of pins, it's EIDE,
if it doesn't, it's SATA. You will probably need access to a USB floppy
drive (about $20) if you need to add SATA drivers during setup. But first,
you have to be sure - you have to HAVE them - that XP drivers are available.


> Give me detail procedures and i will
> follow


The only way to "downgrade" from Vista to XP is after first wiping the
drive. You may find it better to pull the drive and put in a new one, so
that you can easily go back to Vista should whatever reason you're wanting
XP be resolved, or should your downgrade fail, as it may if there are no XP
drivers available.

I'm not seeing your model on the Sony site, but the nearest one, the NR120E,
appears to be only available with Vista. And the Sony site does not offer
any XP drivers for it.

But, you *must* collect all the XP drivers, including motherboard and SATA
drivers, before beginning.

If this model is not avalable with XP, and if the SONY site does not offer
XP drivers, do *not* attempt to downgrade to XP. You will just wind up
with non-functional hardware, and I bet you'll find that even more
frustrating than Vista.

HTH
-pk


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