Recently, the vast majority of laptops come with pre-installed Windows Vista And Windows 7. Many users appreciated the innovations of the new operating system, but some still need it to work Windows XP.

This material describes the procedure for installing Windows XP on laptops not only from Acer, eMachines or Packard Bell, but also from other manufacturers, regardless of what operating system was previously there. All installation questions and Windows setup XP we express in this forum topic: . Before asking, I urge you to use the search on the topic.

Note: Owners of Windows Vista Business, Ultimate and related Windows editions 7 can upgrade to Windows XP Professional for free. Read more about this opportunity

If you still decide to install Windows XP, then read on.

Preparing for installation

Now there is a clear trend when manufacturers, instead of equipping laptops with system recovery disks, create hidden partitions on the hard drive. This is typical not only for Acer, but also for many other manufacturers. It is assumed that the user will create them himself using special utilities. How to do this using the example of Acer laptops is described in this material:. If your laptop does not have a CD/DVD drive, you can use this guide: . More details about the recovery technology itself hidden sections it is said in these materials: and.

Note: In addition to system recovery disks, it is highly recommended to create images of hidden partitions. How to do this is described in this material:

One of the main problems when installing Windows XP is drivers. They can be found:

4) on manufacturers' websites.

Once the drivers have already been downloaded, you can begin preparing the distribution.

Preparing a Windows XP distribution

The Windows XP distribution does not contain drivers for SATA controllers from Intel and AMD 7th and older series. As a result, when installing Windows XP, not a single one will be found. hard drive. To fix this, we do ONE action described below:

1) go to Laptop BIOS and switch the operating mode of the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE-mode (the names may have a different form. Compatibility mode, For example). In this case, Windows XP should install successfully. Then in already installed Windows XP integrate drivers for SATA controller. How to do this is described in this article: . When the integration is complete, in the BIOS we switch the operating mode of the hard drive back to AHCI

2) integrate drivers SATA into the distribution with Windows XP. How to do this is described in this material: . Integration of SATA drivers into the distribution is discussed in this forum thread: . This is the option I recommend.

Note: now you can find a great variety of different builds of Windows XP with integrated drivers, service packs and other things. I strongly do not recommend using such assemblies. Practice shows that the vast majority of problems with drivers are associated with the use of such assemblies. The most common problems are with sound and Wi-Fi adapters. This is why I recommend using the original Windows builds XP without any drivers integrated by “traditional craftsmen”. It is recommended to use pure MSDN builds of Windows.

If you have a chipset from nVidia or AMD 6-series, then you DO NOT need to perform the operations described above. Windows XP will be installed anyway

Installing Windows XP

Windows installation XP on a laptop is no different from installing it on a regular PC. It is very important not to confuse the disks where to install the system. The fact is that when installing XP, hidden partitions (read more about them here:) are visible as normal partitions, where XP can be installed.

BE CAREFUL! DO NOT INSTALL WINDOWS XP ON HIDDEN PARTITIONS!

Installing Windows XP from a flash drive is more complicated. It is described in these guides: Installing Windows XP from a flash drive or memory card and Installing Windows XP from a flash drive using WinToFlash.

All questions about installing Windows XP can be found in this forum thread:

Once the system is already installed, you can begin installing drivers. How this is done is described in detail in the manual: . If you have problems installing and searching for drivers, please refer to this forum topic: .

Return to Windows Vista or Windows 7

If you want to go back to the factory one again Windows Vista or Windows 7 with all the programs and drivers, then first you need to restore the MBR (as described here:), then you need to copy the entire important information from drive C: because when restoring ALL information from drive C: IS ERASED! Information from drive D: remains intact.

When all the information has been copied, you can begin restoration. First you need to reboot and when you see white screen with an inscription Acer you have to press at the same time ALT And F10. It’s not a fact that your recovery will start the first time, you need to practice :) If it doesn’t work out, then you need to go into the BIOS and see if the function is enabled eRecovery.

Note: for the function to work automatic recovery using ALT+F10, the presence of a hidden PQService partition and the original MBR are MANDATORY!

If you don't have a hidden section PQService, but there are recovery discs Factory Default Disc then it’s quite easy to boot from them... and regardless of the presence of hidden partitions and the original MBR, the system will be restored.

If the process has already started, then in half an hour or an hour the laptop will have a completely restored system, just like after the purchase :) And if something doesn’t work out, ask questions in the appropriate thread.

As an alternative to this technology, one can consider a method quick recovery system, which is described in this article: /

If you have neither hidden partitions nor disks, but want to have a licensed Vista or Windows 7, then read these materials: Installing Windows Vista and.

For quite some time now, our school has been using several Acer laptops with Windows Vista pre-installed on them.
When working with this operating system, a number of difficulties arose, primarily related to the high resource intensity of this operating system. However, for a long time it was not possible to install the usual Windows XP on laptops, since the Windows XP distribution does not contain drivers for SATA controllers from Intel and AMD 7 series. As a result, when installing Windows XP, not a single hard drive will be found - this problem, as it turned out when reading the forums, is faced not only by owners of Acer laptops. To fix this, do one of the steps described below:
1) go into the laptop BIOS and switch the operating mode of the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE-mode (the names may have a different form. Compitability mode, for example). In this case, Windows XP should install successfully. Then install drivers for the SATA controller into the already installed Windows XP. When the integration is complete, in the BIOS we switch the hard drive operating mode back to AHCI. There is one big “but” in this option - a fair number of laptops are installed with a BIOS version that does not allow such a switch. Is it a problem for you to flash the BIOS? Then go ahead!
2) integrate SATA drivers into the distribution with Windows XP. I used exactly this method, so I will consider it in detail:
To integrate drivers into the Windows XP distribution, we will need:
- the Windows XP distribution itself;
- CD-R or CD-RW disc;
- nLite program. Microsoft is required for it to work. NET Framework 2.0 - if you already have Windows XP with SP2 or SP3 installed - no problem, if below - download;
- SATA drivers. We search on the websites of laptop manufacturers; I found everything for Acer.
We begin driver integration by installing the nLite utility. Once the utility is installed, we begin copying the Windows XP distribution. To do this, create a WinXP folder on drive D:, for example, and copy all the files and folders there.
We begin work on driver integration. The interface of the nLite utility can hardly be called complex, so I won’t dwell on it in detail (and there are a lot of descriptions on the Internet) - there simply cannot be any difficulties (naturally, we select drivers that correspond to the bit capacity of the system). However, for some laptop models, drivers are available in exe files ( Acer Extensa 5610, for example) - nLite “does not see” them. What to do?
We unpack the exe file with any archiver - we get a file with the ima extension, download another utility - UltraISO, which allows you to edit the contents of a CD/DVD image, extract and run the files on it. We will only need it once - we can find a trial one and not bother too much. Open the ima file, extract the contents already contained in it separate files drivers with extensions cat, sys, inf, etc. - ready! Can be integrated into an image.
We burn the image to disk, install Windows XP - enjoy!

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Laptop and Windows XP – friends forever?

Continuing the series of articles about installing Windows XP, today we will look at installing this operating system on an Acer netbook Aspire One. Reinstallation of Windows XP on a laptop is carried out by users using various reasons. The main one is that device owners want to speed up its performance. In our articles, we have repeatedly reminded that the Windows 7 operating system on a modern laptop looks preferable to XP. And installing Windows XP only makes sense if you have Vista installed as your standard OS.

But with our test subject today the situation is somewhat different. Its owner asked to install XP, since this OS was installed on his desktop computer, he was used to it and did not want to retrain to work with Seven. Well, the owner is a gentleman. Let's start the installation.

Since we are dealing with a netbook, the task was complicated by the lack of a disk drive. My friends didn’t have such a device, and buying an external drive just for the sake of installing it didn’t make sense at all. But I had a 4 GB flash drive at hand. After studying the Internet, an action plan was drawn up for installing Windows XP on a netbook, which is described below.

Preparing a bootable USB flash drive with Windows XP

In order to perform the manipulations described below, you will need:

• Work PC or laptop;
• Flash drive with a capacity of at least 1 GB;
• Windows XP distribution;
• Internet connection.

Before moving on to the bootable USB flash drive, we will need to slightly adjust the Windows XP installation distribution. To do this, create a folder on your WindowsXP hard drive (in the example D:\WindowsXP) and copy there all the files from your installation Windows disk XP. You will get something like this:

After this, we will need to integrate the SATA drivers into our distribution. This is necessary for Windows Installer to find HDD. In principle, this problem can be solved by setting the BIOS mode work hard disk in IDE Mode. But if for some reason you don't want to change BIOS settings, or you need AHCI Mode enabled, then you need to perform a number of operations given below.

After installation, launch nLite.

In the next window, select drivers for 32 or 64 bit OS. Depends on your operating system.

In the window that appears, select all the drivers and click OK, and then next. A dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the start of the driver integration process. Click Yes.

After some time, the process will complete.

After preparing the distribution, you can proceed to creating a bootable flash drive.

Then my choice fell on MSI WIND U100. Time passed, but the device never appeared on sale. Apparently Tekhnosila (the official dealer) did not want to distribute the new product without emptying its warehouses of its junior model, the U90, which it did not want to take. As a result, Acer Aspire One was purchased. In fact, it is not inferior to the MSI product, and is much nicer than ASUS.

The netbook was purchased with pre-installed OS Linux Linups, which is extremely limited in functionality. Updating the OS was vital. I would have installed Ubuntu myself, but the person asked for XP. Since this was my first time installing an OS from a flash drive, the solution was to Google this topic.

There has been a lot of information on the topic: “Installing Windows from a flash drive,” but all the methods offered on the network are too labor-intensive and often not effective, as it happens, first one thing or another.

I started searching for the query: “Aspire One XP”, and on one shaggy page of results I found an interesting link: Installing Windows Xp from flash on Acer Aspire One. The topic interested me very much, the method described in it was quite simple, just download one archive and do everything step by step. BUT! At one stage, the process reported an error *. img file, and bent over. Then I followed the sources of the article, figured out that the article was a reprint of popular material from ee-pisi.ru, and the author added almost nothing of his own +). As a result, on that site I found an excellent tool that did it for me without coughing bootable USB flash drive, with which I successfully installed Windows on this device.

I didn’t touch the distribution kit, I installed Windows as is, then I installed the drivers and made the necessary settings.

The bottom line is this: he who seeks will find! And you will succeed! Good luck in your endeavors;)

People find:

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Hello! Unfortunately, I did not encounter such a problem, and after installation I returned the laptop to its owner. Perhaps the author of this blog can help? : http://5an.kz/?n=229

Guys! Everything is much easier with a USB CD-rom!
The current firewood on XP for note devices needs to be downloaded, which was not much of a problem... even SP2 became (model note 110-AW)

And if there is a current flash?

The trace was left by Minya Aduvancheg | June 30, 2009

Oops! The article is right on topic! I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I just recently got an Espaer 150 with a 3rd HRuni servopack. One thing is bad. – There are probably no pre-installed OSes without glitches by definition:-(I used to think that Vista was installed clumsily, but after buying the netbook described above... Well, oh well! The main thing now is that I have solved one question. If the system has to be rearranged (probability is approx. 70/30 in favor of reinstalling) at least I know how to screw the flash drive. MORE SENKS! And now the fly in the ointment: Who knows - when going to sleep or hibernation (waiting/sleeping), the computer turns off the screen, but forgets to turn off (damn insomnia!) This often happens. I observe that the firewood is original from small soft ones, I have rearranged it more than once, it helps, but not for long. If anyone has any ideas, I will be glad!

I want something like this.

and everything went according to those instructions for me

Which one?

It installs the system, but does not want to boot. what to do?

Do, do and do again. Apparently they deviated from the instructions somewhere.

Acer Aspire One A150 BGK - I did everything exactly according to the instructions, after copying the files and rebooting, selecting what to boot from (in the BIOS it is as it was: HDD, USB, LAN), indicated a flash drive, chose the second option, but there was an error about hal.dll .What didn’t I do... Help!

ACER Aspire ONE A150 BGK - I did everything exactly according to the instructions, but after the second reboot it gives an error with hal.dll. I chose the second option, in the BIOS everything is as it was, the first screw. Doesn't matter….

Unfortunately, I can’t help, I don’t have such a subnote, I don’t experiment with it.

The problem was solved by deleting the partition with system programs.

Thank you for posting, maybe it will be useful to someone. Maybe for me too. Thank you!

The trace was left by wareznak | November 12, 2009

Thank you, your method helped me. it turned out to be much easier to do boot sectors using UltraISO.

to (24 Trace left by Vitalik | September 9, 2009) the operating system does not boot from the partition where it was installed (without a flash drive), so in the boot.ini file you need to change the value disk(1) to disk(0).

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Pursuit

Restore the operating room Windows system 7 (Vista, XP, Windows 8) on an Acer Aspire One laptop can be restored to its previous working state or completely restored to factory settings.

Only the last option is not suitable for everyone, but only for owners of acer laptops who bought it, with windows 7 or another pre-installed.

The recovery image is then specially written to a separate partition on the hard drive - it is reset by default.

If you accidentally (don’t know) something gets screwed up, then it’s better to use the first option (the second deletes all your personal files: games, programs, settings).

The first option is to restore operating system windows on laptop Acer

To restore Windows acer laptop, be sure to connect Charger. Then turn it off and on.

When you see the laptop logo, press two keys (at the same time) Alt F10 (maybe several times).

The “Windows Acer eRecovery Management” utility will launch (the Disk-to-Disk (D2D) option must be enabled in the BIOS).

When prompted for a password, here is the standard: "000000", "AIM1R8", "00000000". Then click on the line " Full recovery system factory settings."

Yes, I almost forgot, it is possible to restore while saving user data.

The second system recovery option on a laptop is acer aspire one windows

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This recovery option can only be used if your laptop can still boot.

Then you can start restoring factory settings Acer eRecovery Control directly from the Windows operating system.

To do this, click Start, then click All Programs at the bottom and click Manage Acer eRecovery.

Then click the "Restore" button on the left. Then you can select "restore" operating system and save user data" or without them. All further actions similar to the first option.

Immediately after this you can press F10 and after rebooting Alt F10. Then the process described in the first option will proceed. Good luck.

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Thank you for the article

The restructuring of the netbook has begun. Day is loading software Acer Configuration Manager F…. How long does it take to recover? What to do?

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Error code: 0xc000000f indicates technical problems with registry.
Sometimes you can boot into safe mode, then you can check the disk with the built-in chkdsk utility.
If it's not, you can check it through the BIOS under Diagnostics or boot from a LiveCD.

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You can restore the registry, if there are save points, roll back. Only if loading is not performed in safe mode, you need to use the distribution ( installation disk) for rollback. However, if you have a distribution, you can simply reinstall winds, if it doesn't work, then the disk was flying.
Most of what is written above depends on the model of the PC itself.

thanks Frank. I have a netbook acer AO 533-138kk.crom net.v bios all instructions. the system began to slow down. I decided to do a full rollback. I started installing the OS and didn't write a single device. I was in the BIOS, I changed the disks. The result is the same. Aser eRekoveri on site.d2d too. asking disk.kuda it doesn't show. can someone help. thanks in advance.

0x3 indicates that the system cannot find the recovery disk. Why, I don't know, maybe you deleted it or corrupted it. If there is no SD, you can install Windows from a USB drive. Try to find the reasons for the slowdown. Check for viruses (Doctor Web), look at processes (in the task manager), perform optimization (there are many such programs), etc., although hardware problems are also possible.

Yeah, well I don't have a manager

how to make a manager?

If not, but you need it, then just download and install.

Thank you, everyone worked well. Only now the laptop asks the user for a password when booting, no passwords are set. What to do?

Thank you! Everything worked. Good luck!

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Acer Configuration Manager F. the same thing, hung here in the settings ((o_O

Thank you, AltF10 taxi

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Frank, thanks for good advice!
Restore factory settings to the best of your ability. Only now, after a reboot, Acer eRecovery is automatically managed...
Please tell me what I did wrong. Thank you in advance!

Yas hasn't encountered this. Here's what others have written about it:

I understand that the person tried to change the system key, for example, from Home Basic to Ultimate, after which the situation happened. Those. it turns out that the recovery system has detected a qualitative / significant change in system files and tried to run a restore, which failed because the system was already “new.” Accordingly, we have entered an endless loop... Ergo, there is no rollback option because we cannot start the system, and we also cannot restore it. Thus, there is only one way out: reinstalling the system from the required distribution with disk recovery. Those. When installing the system, you need to remove the recovery partition. The event is not guaranteed in advance, and if something happens to the equipment, service center you will be restored to your “native” system. If you don't take the necessary action right away, then whatever data you have at the time, you'll probably lose.
Alternatively, you can restore the original system from a recovery CD. As far as I remember, Acer always applies them to their laptops.

It seems that the recovery partition has suddenly become active and bootable.
This will only help clean install systems with complete destruction of the recovery partition (if not cool). You can also use a special boot utility For Reserve copy section.

Thank you very much for your quick response! It's a pity that there is no way yet (and I was already grieving for myself that everything worked out, because this is the first time to restore the system...)
The OS is licensed (so I don’t want to fix it - the guys there reinstall the pirated version again at some point), but I don’t remember the disk included (I haven’t seen it since 2009) - I’ll have to look.
Do you no longer need to change your BIOS? For example, change to boot from a different location (eg CD-Rom)?
Read your advice on installing Windows and others - and for them a HUGE thank you! I will torture it (netbook) a little more))))
Best regards, Yulia

In BIOS, you can only change the load if you put a CD-Rom, for example, the computer will first go to the disk, and seeing that there is nothing there, it will focus on the hard drive, and there you have something gone wrong. In a word, it will be the same as it was only with a delay.
You can do it differently. You must have the activation key below. You can download the original Windows (just don't get the wrong version), just like you do, burn it to a disk or flash drive, install it, and activate it with your own key.
There are two negative aspects here. The first is to do everything you need to do, format all the partitions, that's all you need to play. Three - you need to configure everything, in terms of loading drivers, etc.