If you don't have the recovery software provided by Compaq or HP, download our recovery and repair disk for Compaq or HP computers. If you don't have the Recovery CD-DVD Creator software installed and neither the recovery partition intact, you can use your original Windows XP installation disk. I took the original hard drive (120gb Samsung), which had windows xp installed and running fine, out and put it into a newer computer I built. I installed the 120 gb WD drive in (which also had a running version of XP installed on it) and it wouldn't boot. I then tried putting my windows xp cd in to reformat and. I have a 160GB drive that was previously full of all my data, but is now appearing unformatted to windows XP SP2, and as 33GB to the BIOS. Capacity limit jumpers aren.

Works for me success. Great tips if yau still failed, read this tips may be can help you ========================== XP 32-bit Drivers Support for HP Pavilion dv4, Presario CQ45 & Presario CQ40 [Intel Platform] Date. Important Notes: A. Please read the documentation on how to install the AHCI driver before install XP OS. If not you may encountered BSOD issue when installing the XP OS. Please install the XP OS first before install the drivers.

C.Suggest to copy the all the drivers from the DVD media to a temporary folder on local HDD C: drive D.You may need to reboot the system after each of the driver installation E.Ignore the prompt for “Found New Hardward Wizard” dialog box F.Fn+F4 fix by BIOS F.11E -new!!! Drivers installation instruction: Please install the drivers in sequence order by going to the respective folder as below: 1. After you install the XP OS, flash the Bios to F.11E as follow: a. Goto BIOS_F.11E and run the Winflash.bat and the unit shutdown after complete the BIOS flashing. Dear Sir, Thats wonderfull solution you have provided. Hats off to you. Though the SATA driver you have provided did not work on Compaq CQ40-317TU.

The Driver worked for me had “Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller”. The file details are: Filename: iaAHCI.INF; ** Revision: Version 8.8.0.1009; ** Date:; ** Abstract: Windows* INF File for Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Driver Its available on intel site: or I had a talk with one technical person, he says he used SP41610.EXE FOR Audio and it worked perfectly. But it did not work for me.

The Modem driver did not work. Your method worked very fine. I made a CD and then installed it.

Thanks Manish. I’ve been looking for a solution to this problem for many weeks but didn’t find a proper one which could solve my problem. Windows 7 is a great OS but it consumes too much battery power so I thought of using Windows XP which had a reduced power consumption. But, I am not being able to install it. It can’t install directly from the CD-ROM so I tried booting. When it says to press any key to setup XP, I press then it says that it is inspecting hardware configuration then at the bottom of the blue screen many texts comes and finally when it says Windows is now loadinga blue screen appears with a STOP: 0x7B error. I searched the whole web.

I found a solution which says to change the SATA to IDE in the BIOS setup, but I accessed my BIOS menu but didn’t find anything with SATA/IDEmy Windows XP disc has SATA drivers in it, but when I press F6 during the bottom-texts another screen comes which tells me to press S or ENTER or Esc, when I press S a screen comes telling that no floppy-drive is found. My system: Compaq Presario CQ42-355TU Please provide me with a working solution to this problem! IT IS NOT WORKING. I have tried by using the right drivers for my laptop. When i started the process as similar as above tutorial, I got error messege before finalizing ends and then after the process finalized, the funny thing is the windows installation files became 10 times bigger (700MB —-> 7000MB) And nlite getting error when i like to make an.ISO (this may because the windows files so big) btw I did the process above using nlite and the windows version is XP professional SP3. Any body can solve this?