Installing Windows XP in Dell Laptops

This topic is dedicated for the people who have tried but unsuccessful in installing Windows XP in their Dell laptops. Dell people strongly oppose installing XP in a Dell laptop which comes with Vista. So don't consult yo customer care for installing XP in yo machine. I have been trying to install it for quite a long time and i just found the method. I know i'm late cos Windows 7 is gonna release in a short while and it will shut the holes in Vista. Seriously Windows 7 rocks!

I have a DELL XPS M1530 which is an year old, so i took the risk of removing Vista. When i Googled about installing xp in dell laptops, i found a tool called nLite. This tool allows an user to extract the XP ISO and it allows us to add some software and then build the ISO. I could easily get all the drivers for my laptop for windows xp. Just Googling will do that.

Later, i found that those drivers could be installed even after installing XP. Basically, Dell gives SATA hard disks which operates in AHCI mode. XP does not have AHCI drivers and so it doesn't get installed in the laptop. So the hard disk operation mode must be changed. There are only two operations: AHCI and ATA. It is enough if you change it to ATA mode. You can find this option in BIOS setting. You need to disable the flash memory too before changing to ATA. Once you are done with it, then you can boot yo XP cd and install!

Unfortunately, i couldn't get the AHCI drivers for XP. So it still works in ATA mode:(. But i don't have any problems:). So try out and enjoy XP in yo laptop!

26/11

            U may wonder wat does 26/11 mean here, as my blog title suggests that this is a tech blog. Well right, this is a tech blog, and i dedicate this post to my fellow countrymen who lost their lives in this Mumbai attack. I salute the NSG's and Policemen who fought against the bad guys bravely, for 3 continuous days.

            This post is about how technology helped the bad guys. It is said that the bad guys made use of GPS and Google Earth. GPS is the acronym Global Positioning System. GPS helps you to reach a place anywhere in this world. If suppose a group of people get lost, while travelling towards Mumbai in a boat, they can use GPS to find the right direction. GPS can also be used to locate your current positio

        

            Well you must be thinking now, how GPS works. A GPS reciever recieves the signals from satellite and gives the information to the user. A GPS reciever recieves information from more than 4 satellites. The reciever decides from which satellite it has to recieve the signals. It selects the satellite which provides the strongest signals at that location from the 30 satellites available exclusively availabale for GPS. The reciever gets the signals from the orbit of the satellites and gives information about the locations to the user using a method called geometric trilateration. The GPS can show you routes to travel, if you set your destination.

 

            The next one is Google Earth. This is a common software which everyone would have used. This software gives the images which are captured in the satellite. These images are placed on a virtual sphere. Earlier they used to show only important landmarks but nowadays they provide all the details like the shops present in a street and sensitive details like military installations. They provide 360 degree view of streets in USA and Japan from the ground level. Using google earth and GPS, travelling to any unknown place is not a hectic task today.

 

            People have started blaming that advancement of technology is the reason for this attack. Well the answer is partly right. The fact is the bad guys have learnt to use the technology. We people are still beginners in tech. The same GPS and Google Earth can be used to trace the bad guys activities and capture them. So we are not supposed to blame the tech for this attack. If technology is used constructively,no terrorists can exist in this earth!