Laptop help

[awelsh]

Well right, my laptop messed up so I went to re install windows.

I insert the XP disk and it displays something like "Windows XP could not install due to a hard drive not being plugged in or powered on" etc etc...

Its a right pain in the ass, I managed to get win98 installed but when it goes to boot it displays "Not enough memory, allocate more"
Specs of laptop are:

60GB HDD
2GB RAM
Intel Centrino 2.0GHZ
Made for XP, Vista capable

It should work but its really strange how it isnt :S

Any ideas as im not paying PCWorld £50 to have to all re-installed again when I have all the XP Upgrade disks etc here that ive paid for before anyway.

Thanks :)

[xzl.]

Just wondering, but have you tried going into the boot menu and deleting the hard drive partitions? I had the same problem as you and that seemed to work :)

[Chippiewill]

Well right, my laptop messed up so I went to re install windows.

I insert the XP disk and it displays something like "Windows XP could not install due to a hard drive not being plugged in or powered on" etc etc...

Its a right pain in the ass, I managed to get win98 installed but when it goes to boot it displays "Not enough memory, allocate more"
Specs of laptop are:

60GB HDD
2GB RAM
Intel Centrino 2.0GHZ
Made for XP, Vista capable

It should work but its really strange how it isnt :S

Any ideas as im not paying PCWorld £50 to have to all re-installed again when I have all the XP Upgrade disks etc here that ive paid for before anyway.

Thanks :)

Try going into BIOS and disabling sata mode, oh and Win98 doesn't support that much RAM which is probably why that isn't working

[Markeh]

Just wondering, but have you tried going into the boot menu and deleting the hard drive partitions? I had the same problem as you and that seemed to work :)

This was what we did on my Acer a few months ago. It saved us the stupid £50 charge.

[awelsh]

Thanks guys, turned off SATA support and it installed fine :)

Everything is working again now apart from the audio :( the drivers wont install and say "Not able to complete task as MEDIA is not present" :(

Im sure ill sort it out though :)

Saved me £50 too :)