Satellite L300-110 Vista Downgrade to XP

("New" in a store), I bought a Toshiba Satellite 300-110 with Vista installed, discovered that Vista was not compatible with almost everything and wanted to XP on it. First of all, I tried to format C during execution of vista, Vista did me not think C since Vista format that I did not understand that I was trieing to remove Vista...

Measures taken so far:
1 said the laptop in BIOS to restart on the CD/DVD
2. the document in the format C (vista partition) completely using windows XP instalation CD.
3. installed installed windows XP on 'SATA Compatibility Mode' (selected in the bios)
4 found that the SATA compatibility mode does not use my laptop computer quality because you need AHCI.
*(This means Windows XP is correctly installed on SATA _Compatibility_ mode, but i need instal XP on SATA _AHCI_ mode, which is Far Better) *.
5A tried to install XP on the SATA AHCI mode, but then at the launch of the instalation, I got a blue screen that says there is something wrong with my hard drive.
6. I discovered that there is a necessary AHCI driver before you can install XP
7. I found the right drivers on the internet and used Nlite to make a new windows XP install CD which includes the correct drivers.
8. now, I came to a new blue screen. It is said (in Dutch): + Setup can not find support for the by you advised the massive savings devices + (I think it means: he can not find the drivers for my hard drive). + Installation will now installation support for the following mass rescue: + (located below :) (which means) +< none="">. +.
+ Press E if you want to install additional SCSI adapters, disks cd-rom-stations or special controllers for use with windows. Also if you have a record of support for devices of the plant's massive savings. +
+ Press ENTER if you have no record of factory support of devices for registration of mass, or when you do not want to insert any additional devices to save mass. +
I think that's the point where I have to insert the drivers, but are in fact the drivers already on my CD of instalation XP Nlite.

So: My hard drive does not have a problem because I can still boot XP compatibility mode.
There is a problem with the SATA AHCI driver that must be installed before installing XP defenitely. I'm afraid that the laptop does not have the AHCI driver, but the laptop try just instal XP directly.
The new XP installation CD is supposed to work very well. Anyone has a suggestion, how to install the SATA AHCI driver first?
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Post edited by: JDJR

Hello

I m not a L300 owner but I was able to install Win XP using AHCI on my Satellite U400 mode.
The point is that you should pass first to AHCI mode in BIOS before you try to install Win XP with SATA drivers!

The SATA drivers are part of the Intel Storage Manager! You can find it on the European driver Toshiba page.
The use of nLite is really good idea I did too and it worked!

Integrate the drivers SATA (from Intel Storage Manager) in the new drive for Win XP
Switch to the AHCI (save the changes made in the BIOS)
Then start using a new Win XP drive.

Notes; Win XP it contains at least SP2

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