Vista installation i have window xp on my 'c, drive which has only 2 gb space left.my d has only 5 gb left out 80 gb sata hdd. now i am installing new window vista on my 2nd hdd which has 250 gb space, but after few steps it asks for drivers which are not in my cd. how should i continue

Okay the first thing even though your question is very general and we really don't know the specific probably having if you're installing an auto 64-bit you need these operating systems listed below make sure you have one of those operating systems it must be 64-bit you need to check if your operating system is 64-bit before you can stop go to the Run command on your operating system and type winver then enter an then enter and see if and seethe computer is if the computer64bit if it is not 64-bit you need a 64-bit computer first and foremost if you're having other problems you need to give us more details before we can help

If you're having a license key issue you may not actually own software or maybe counterfeit you need to contact Autodesk in that case good luck

The 64-bit version of Maya 2010 software is supported on any of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Vista Business (SP1 or higher)
• Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition (SP2 or higher)
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.3 WS operating system
• Fedora™ 8 operating system

The following web browsers are supported for Maya 2010:

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 internet browser or higher
• Netscape® 7 web browser or higher
• Apple® Safari® web browser
• Mozilla® Firefox® web browser

Hardware
At a minimum, the 32-bit version of Maya 2010 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Windows: Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon™ 64, or AMD Opteron™ processor
• Macintosh® computer: Intel-based Macintosh computers
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free hard drive space
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• Maya Composite media cache requirements for playback:
• 10 GB minimum, 200 GB recommended
• HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI

At a minimum, the 64-bit version of Maya 2010 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Windows and Linux: Intel® EM64T processor, AMD Athlon 64, or AMD Opteron
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free hard drive space
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• Maya Composite media cache requirements for playback:
• 10 GB minimum, 200 GB recommended
• HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI

hello,
1st go to ur bios and change SATA Mode to AHCI from IDE
then try install win xp again :D

Yes, it's compatible with the motherboard, no, it's not compatible with the XP install disk because it doesn't have SATA support. And since Asus doesn't provides it special driver needed (one that must be put on a floppy) it means that you simply cannot install XP on this disk.
All you can do is to obtain another PATA hdd what ever its size and install XP in it. Then put the new SATA disk in and use it to store all the installed programs and all your files on it. As a bonus you won't lose them if the new PATA disk fails or XP gets corrupted.
Or install Vista or 7 instead of XP, the have support for SATA disks

You might need to use the "Floppy" version of the Driver upon install (if you know what the chipsets are. Most likely it's Intel and you can slip stream the driver files into a new XP CD.
However if a partition is formated from Vista and you attempt to install XP over it without formatting it, crash is almost certain - XP and Vista have different versions of NTFS.
If you want both XP and Vista on the same machine, ALWAYS install the older one first! i.e. XP first. And create only 1 partition in XP where you intend to install on.
Then install Vista afterwards with Vista created partition.

To install Windows XP on SATA or advanced IDE hard drive, you will need to insert a driver diskette at the time of starting the installation process and pressing "F6". For more details visit the link below:

http://ufixitnow.blogspot.com/2009/04/oem-driver-support-during-windows-xp.html

it seems that your computer might have a SATA hard drive which could not be detectable by windows xp, try to install vista it will detect it easily.

otherwise use dm (disk manager) for detection and partition.

You have to go online and search then download the drivers for preparing SATA laptop harddrives for installation of Windows XP otherwise during installation it will tell you there is no hard drive found.

Acer Extensa supports two model of HDD installation 1) AHCI and 2) SATA.

Windows Vista get installs on both but for Windows XP you need to Enable SATA option.

For that go into Bios, Change option of Hard Disk from AHCI to SATA. After that you can install both XP as well as Vista.

Try it, and mail me update: [email protected]

i am using Windows XP on Acer Extensa-4220

When u bought a new hdd, it shud not have any partition on it. but in ur case, I assume u have formatted it to ntfs but no operating system is installed in it.

If u want to make the new hdd as slave and have another old hdd as primary, that have already an operating system installed in it, then the problem shud be hdd boot priority in bios. Enter ur bios and check for hdd boot priority and put the old hdd to the top most order, then restart. this shud fix the problem.

If u installed OS in ur new hdd (win xp),
1) ntldr or ntdetect.com is missing on root dir. (c:\). If u have another computer that works and have xp installed, just put this new hdd along with the current hdd and boot to windows. Copy ntldr and ntdetect.com to your new hdd. Or another way is just repair using windows xp boot cd.
2)the windows partition is not set 'active'. to set active, boot into winxp setup and press 'r'. this will lead to recovery console. type ur passwrod for admin (def=none). use diskpart command to set active. for easy way, put the new hdd to another computer. boot to windows. rightclick my computer, choose manage. on left pane select disk manager. rightclick on ur partition, then set active.

Hope this help

if you are using (sata)harddrive dont install windows 98.i have a solution now before connecting your harddrive change the jumper to the slave (for single harddrive and single cd-rom or combo drive).it will work.plz install windows xp (service pack 2) or windows vista these are good versions for all!