Hello guys, got a inspiron 1545 recently with a SATA 320 gb HDD / 4gb ram with Windows Vista Home Basic. Like most of us I hate Vista. So I created a partition & installed XP.

Used a program 'EasyBCD' to setup dual boot. I get the dual boot screen at startup. But only XP boots. After a little probing, came to know that there are only 2 options in the BIOS for SATA operations.

Nov 08, 2012 More about dell e6410 sata operation. DELL E6410 SATA OPERATION 'RAID ON' not working. Converting to AHCI, installation issue? 2nd SATA drive detected in BIOS.

If I select ATA I can boot only to XP. If I select AHCI then I can boot only into Vista. Searched around but the solutions were a bit over my head. Really appreciate if anybody could come up with something in lay mans terms. Thanks in advance. There is nothing wrong with Vista, how long did you use it before concluding you hate it? In fact, I think most of the users here quite like Vista.

You know you won't be able to take full advantage of your hardware without Vista, right? On to your question. You'll need to be re-installing XP in AHCI mode. To do this, you need to create a disc with AHCI drivers. You have an Intel GM45 chipset, so.

In order to integrate them to your XP disc, you will need to download and install. Dietetics By Srilakshmi Pdf To Jpg. Just follow on screen directions, and when you get to the screen where you choose tasks, choose 'Integrate Drivers' and 'Create a bootable CD.' In order to integrate the drivers you downloaded, you must first extract them. I have Dell Inspiron 1545, 3GB RAM and 150 GB Hard Drive and Vista Home Premium 32Bit and Intel Duo-core processor (capable for 64-bit system). I uninstalled Vista and integrated drivers as provided by link, but it didn't work. And then I tried to change in BIOS ATA versus AHCI, and tried to install XP original and then the updated with drivers from the link above I gave.

An error I get is 'A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer' and so on. The technical information is: *** STOP: 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xF748E0BF, 0x78DA207, 0x78D9F08) *** pci.sys - address F748E0BF base at F7487000, DateStamp 3c0bfadb Hope that helps! I look forward to hearing you! Well, if you changed to ATA mode, it should not have bluescreened. In fact, the stop code for 0x0000007E is generally not related to missing AHCI drivers. Though I believe the P45M chipset has no PATA, and therefore the ODD is SATA, and that can get sticky.

So it's possible. The first issue though that I see is that you integrated RAID drivers, which are actually not the same as AHCI drivers. Swg Crafting Programs on this page. If you check out my first post in this topic, you might want to try the method I suggest with the drivers I suggest.