Windows xp on Gateway MT6723 laptop

I'm trying to install windows xp on a Gateway MT6723 laptop. I know for a fact that people have done it, just not sure exactly how. If they are slipstreaming SATA drivers to the xp disk I need to know exactly what driver to use and how to do it. I've already been given tons of hypothetical solutions from people who have ideas about how to do it but have not actually done it on this machine, so please only tell me what to do if you have actually tried it on this model.

Anonymous Mar 30, 2009

Yeah that's exactly my problem, sorry I didn't specify. I have tried to look a SATA option in my bios but it looks as if my machine's bios can't do this... There simply are no options pertaining to SATA or IDE or anything like that in my bios.

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Are you trying to install Windows XP on your laptop that has a SATA drive in the laptop?
And during the Windows XP install it cannot find a hard drive?
The reason why Windows install does not work is because Windows XP does not have a SATA driver support and therefore cannot find the hard disk.
THE FIX FOR THIS PROBLEM.
Go into your BIOS and turn off Native SATA support or set it to IDE controller (this setting depends on the type of BIOS). Save the setting and reboot and you will be able to install Windows XP.

Anonymous Mar 30, 2009

Go to the Gateway's WEB site and see if there is a sata driver that you can download and put on a floppy or CD to use during the Windows install. If I remember correctly, when you begin the Windows install you are given a chance to install a 3rd party driver instead of the Windows IDE driver.

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