Can I go back to XP?

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:52:05 -0500, shr2004 <guest RemoveThis @unknown-email.com>
wrote:

>
>Hi there,
>
>As I have a similar issue, I am asking my question here.
>My Toshiba laptop came with XP. Then I installed vista Ultimate
>removing XP. After that I made it dual boot with linux.
>Recently I was having problem where Vista could not boot properly or
>cannot wake while in sleep mode. From several tries and test vista get
>information from Microsoft and pointed that disk driver problem, cannot
>read from disk. Although I can boot into linux without any problem and
>also in vista after if I switch off and on again.
>Then I decided to go back to XP. I have XP SP3 CD which I installed in
>another desktop recently. When I boot from XP CD, the moment where it
>asks me to press Enter to install, when I press enter it says that there
>is no disk driver or it is not connected, so it cannot install.
>After that I can again boot my machine into both linux and vista. Then
>why XP CD can't find any disk to install. I used Gparted live CD to
>delete existing vista partition and tried again, same result. Now I am
>installing Vista again and it can find the disks.
>So where is the problem that XP can locate the disk?

The disk interface in your laptop is set to AHCI transfer mode. The
problem is your XP SP3 CD does not contain an AHCI disk interface
driver.
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ngf&q=windows+xp+ahci&btnG=Search>

>Any one knows the problem, pls let me know.