can't format HP mini 210

[blusking]

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mga boss unsaon d.i nehhh.... e downgrade ta nmo from win7 to xp ang notebook Hp mini 210 ... amo gamit kay kay bootable usb... ang among probss.. kay sa kato na sa partation portion, wlay makita nga partation sa notebook..

-unsaon kaha ni siya "kini akong suliran blusking"

[Rainerius]

It's Parition cguro boss. Why are you downgrading diay? Windows 7 runs better than Windows XP even with the same hardware.

[janhenz1]

came across this problem on another forum,
from what i understand it's because the HP mini 210 HDD is set in SATA mode.
Windows Xp will only recognize HDD in IDE mode.
unfortunately sa HP mini walay option to change ana sa BIOS.

anyway, here is a tutorial from the HP forum.
hope this works for you..

Installing Win XP, F6 on HP mini 210-1066sb with Intel Atom ... - HP Support Forum

This was what I did:
- made backup of HPmini on external USB HDD with Clonzilla (USB mode).
- I have old IBM T60 with installed XP. I installed on this T60 machine drivers for HPmini - this driver (Intel Chipset ICH7 Driver for Microsoft Windows XP). You can use any XP machine you have, but small partitions :smileyhappy:
- Just to be safe I also prepared sysprep (maybe this was not needed :smileyhappy: and the machine shutdown
- I have made backup of this IBM T60 machine on external USB HDD with Clonzilla
- Restore backup from previous line to HPmini with Clonzilla
- Test if the machine boots (crash, reboots, BSOD...) so no luck yet !
- Following this very good post I have made USB stick with bootable UBCD4Win
- Boot with UBCD4Win USB stick and follow this good post (from part b., from point 5. to 9.) - this is the most important part! It will detect your HDD and copy your driver and correct your register... [This will teach you how you can transfer WinXP to any other hardware not just HP :smileyhappy: :smileyhappy:]
- Boot machine and uhuhu it booted and sysprep asked me for some file missing(syntpcol.dll) I said skip and finally booted to XP!
- Just now I'm uninstalling all stuff on HPmini which I had on IBM T60 and later I will install all HP drivers...
Maybe I complicated a little but at least finally after one full day of work I have HP mini 2100-1066sb with WinXP.
- Resize partitions with Gparted (on USB)
Why I needed XP? Because Safeguard easy encryption of HDD which doesn't support Visa or Win7 and this will be somebody's working laptop...

Sorry for bad English, I hope I will help somebody as many of you helped me reading your posts :smileyhappy:

Bye and good luck,
ThomasV.

[blusking]

It's Parition cguro boss. Why are you downgrading diay? Windows 7 runs better than Windows XP even with the same hardware.

the reason why i'm downgrading is that ..I dont have a win 7 os installer...

[StingerRay]

came across this problem on another forum,
from what i understand it's because the HP mini 210 HDD is set in SATA mode.
Windows Xp will only recognize HDD in IDE mode.
unfortunately sa HP mini walay option to change ana sa BIOS.

anyway, here is a tutorial from the HP forum.
hope this works for you..

Installing Win XP, F6 on HP mini 210-1066sb with Intel Atom ... - HP Support Forum

try this one. This maybe solve your problem.

[ffprinting]

Another way of solving this problem is by installing windows 8 consumer preview... This may not be a long term solution and the OS might not be stable in the long run but this is still a solution none the less.

Been running win8 for quite sometime already... so far so good...