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jgpaiva:
urlwolf: Aren't there any alternatives? I'd say there should be some similar programs out there...

urlwolf:
well, I wish.
I haven't found any that work as well. There's a free one that does ok, but intellicomplete is better.

BTW, reinstalling XP is HELL. Vista did something to my system... the XP cds says there are no HDs (!). This is a dell inspiron 1720 with 2 HDs. I have tried everything in the book: alternate any HD in any slot, tried both. No luck.

THen I used Hiren's boot CD (best collection of boot/partition tools ever). None seemed to work!

Any ideas? Anyone went back from vista to XP? How did it go?

BTW: I'll never buy a dell again. Their support is criminal.

justice:
Yeah went back from vista to xp, no problems.
just booted from the XP cd, deleted partition, recreated partition.
Same as a regular XP total reinstall.

Do you have your HDs set as RAID? you might have to add drivers in that case I think.

urlwolf:
I don't think so... no, no RAID.
They are SATA, I read here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=90285&highlight=sata+bios+XP+reinstall

That one may need to disable SATA in the BIOS before XP can see the HD. I did that, but didn't help.

I'm getting to the end of my resources. Dell won't help, I know them too well as I have spent more than 10 hrs on the phone with them. Their current level of cuelessness is astonishing.

justice:
Spoke to a colleague here on ICT Support, and he thinks it's probably SATA issue.
Some SATA drives can fall back into a compatibility mode so XP thinks it's an IDE drive, then it installs ok. However others can't and if this is the case then you'll need to supply drivers to get XP to recognise it on install.

If you have been able to install XP in the past then this might not apply.

Looking for drivers, I found the following for you that might also be of use:
Apparently there's a BIOS Update that's recommended. These sometimes help, but as always with bios updates if incorrectly applied and stop your pc from starting altogether.

also there's a chipset update to improve SATA support, and an Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver update. Whatever that is.

Hope that helps.

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