Question Changing SATA mode to IDE for installing Windows XP ?

[Darkscythe]

I wanted to install Windows XP on my old system which came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed, so i knew this would take some effort. The first problem that I saw was a BSOD due to my HDD being set to AHCI. I entered BIOS setup utility and tried to change the SATA mode but i did not find any option to change it. I looked everywhere in the BIOS but did not find any such option. I could integrate the drivers, but could not find any. Appreciate if anyone could help with this issue.

Other info:
Laptop- Acer Aspire ES1-531
BIOS: Insyde H20 rev 5.0
HDD: Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB

pls say in you need any more info, will change accordingly

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Windows XP is not supported on your laptop model, no Windows XP drivers have been released for it.
According to Acer Support, only Windows 8.1 (64-bit) and Windows 10 (64-bit) is supported.

 

[BFG-9000]

There's no official XP AHCI driver for Braswell so you aren't going to find an official F6 driver. Normally this means if you don't have a selectable IDE mode in the BIOS, you can't install XP.

However some people have reported the Fernando modified AHCI Baytrail driver works well enough to get Windows 7 installed on Braswell, after which it updates itself to the standard Microsoft SATA driver. As there isn't such a Microsoft driver in XP, presumably it could keep working with the Fernando driver? At least you don't have to worry about driver signing.

 

[TerryLaze]

VMware
Virtualbox
Read up on them and choose one, they are both free to use, XP isn't so you will have to deal with that and I don't know if the MS servers still accept licenses from XP.
Qemu is free and open-source if you are into those things, it's much harder to use though.
You can't run XP natively on hardware that doesn't have support for it.
If you want something native that's anywhere near to XP you need a linux distro.

ReactOS - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Darkscythe]

Thank you for the replies! BFG-9000, I will surely take a look at that. TerryLaze, I know how to use Virtualbox, and have been using it for a long time on my main system. The problem is that not only is the system i want to install win xp too weak to run Virtualbox, but I want to run xp naitively. I have been able to run vista on that computer so I was wondering if i could push just a little bit.