How do I remove Vista from Satellite U400 PSU44E and install Win XP
Because much of my specialist software is designed to work with XP pro I need to remove Vista Home Premium from my U400 and install XP Pro. As others have found with other Toshiba models simply placing XP disk in the DVD drive results in 'the dreaded blue screen' with error code 0X0000007B (0XF78D2524, etc etc) and comments about hard drive properly configured / check for viruses/run Chdsk/F to check for corruption.
Changing HDD BIOS from AHCI to compatability mode allows XP disk to load and run as far as 'Press enter to load XP' but pressing 'Enter' does nothing; pressing other keys has no effect either and the only way out I have found is to press and hold down the On/Off button. Also re changing from 'AHCI' to 'Compatability ' there are many comments on other Internet fora suggesting that using Compatability mode makes disk access much slower than the AHCI mode. However despite searching the Web using Tosh HDD Model Referencee No (MK3252GSX) I cannot find a XP ATA driver to nLite into XP before trying again.
Can anyone tell me a procedure they have used to strip off Vista and replace it with XP Pro on te U400 PSU44E please?
A friend of me has a Satellite U400 too. He installed Windows XP in AHCI mode and he doesnt have any problems.
As Juan28 posted you can integrate the drivers by using nLite. This tool is freeware and pretty easy to use. You need only the original Microsoft installation disk and the SATA drivers that you can download on the Toshiba website:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Download Drivers
If you dont want nLite you need an external FDD. After booting from CD you must press F6 to load the drivers from the FDD.
I prefer nLite because so I dont need an external FDD.
Furthermore I have read in the forum that the AHCI mode is a little bit faster as the compatible mode but in compatible mode you dont need any additional drivers for SATA.
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