I got the nearly the same problem, i bought my laptop with win Vista, after 5 weeks it was driving me crazy and i installed win XP. First the setup loaded, then it said that something is wrong with the harddrive (SATA too) , so i asked an semi professional. He shown me, that you have to do a "Low Level"-Formation, or also called "KillDisk". This is very important if you want to downgrade your Windows.
Then I've installed Win Xp and it works without any bigger problems, just check wich driver to install before installing XP.
The Killdisk is needed to delete the Boot-Partition, then you only have to use FDisk (contained in the WindowsXP installation)
Killdisk will need a Windows version (98 or anything like that) you can make a Win98 Boot CD (just ask Google, then you'll find the right)
I research http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-us&name=installnha
I have a windows vista ultimate laptop.When I bought it it had Windows
xp on it.I upgraded it to windows vista then it started rebooting.So
when the computer shop people tried to put Windows xp the computer
didn't respond they said that it is beacause of the sata harddisk.After
somehow they put Windows xp.then my dad put windows vista again.Now it
works properly.but I want to put windows xp now should i do it?Thanks
I think you can upgrade the account. Then you can use window 7 ultimate. it is a nice version to use. Without any trouble or problem.
