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You are Here » Home >> Information Technology >> Software >> Windows >> Installing Windows XP on Acer Travelmate 6291 Laptop (SATA Hard Drive Without Floppy)

Installing Windows XP on Acer Travelmate 6291 Laptop (SATA Hard Drive Without Floppy)

July 30, 2009 by Lorensius Londa 18 Comments

Last night i was confused when i was installing Windows XP on my friend’s laptop, the installer didn’t recognize the laptop’s hard drive,i thought there was a problem with the hard drive. After googling for a while, i found that it was caused by Windows XP installer that didn’t support SATA hard drive. To overcome the problem, we have to include SATA drivers into Windows XP installation CD and reburn it, and fortunately, that’s not a complicated task to do :-).

Ok, below i will present you step by step how to install Windows XP on Acer 6291 laptop. First of all, you need to prepare the Windows XP installation CD, Acer 6291 SATA driver (F6 SATA driver for XP installation.zip), nlite (freeware) and UltraISO (payware) program.

1. Insert your Windows XP installation CD into your CD/DVD room drive.

2. Extract F6 SATA driver for XP installation.zip file and you will get two zip file (f6flpy32.zip and f6flpy64.zip).

3. Choose f6flpy32.zip and extract it, you will find f6flpy32.exe file, extract f6flpy32.exe to get temp.IMA file.

4. Using UltraISO , open temp.IMA file and extract it into a folder. The next step is to integrate SATA driver into Windows XP installation CD using nlite.

5. Launch nlite, and click Browse to locate the Windows XP installation CD and folder into which your modification saved. Nlite will copy all Windows XP CD content into folder that you’ve specified.

4. Click Next and the next Next button to skip import step.

5. On Task Selection window, choose Drivers and Bootable ISO option, then click Next.

6. Click Insert and choose Single Driver, locate the extracted SATA driver, choose iaahic.inf file.

7. On Driver Integration Options window, choose Textmode Driver option and select all drivers listed, and click Next to continue.

8. On Apply Changes dialog box, then click Yes to start the process, click Next after the process finished.

9. After integrating SATA drivers, create an image file (ISO) for your new modification Windows XP installer.

10. Using burning tools like Nero, burn the image and then you can start install XP without any problem :-). For Acer’s driver for Windows XP, you can download it from Acer’s support website.

Note:
Because UltraIso is a payware program, you can use another way for extracting temp.IMA file using Virtual Floppy Drive tool. Below i will show you the steps for using Virtual Floppy Drive:

1. First, download Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) package and extract it into a folder.

2. Look for vfdwin.exe from your extracted VFD files, and run it.

3. Click Start to start the driver.

4. Create a virtual floppy drive on Drive0 tab, click Change to set drive letter for it.

5. Now, you should see a 3 1/2 floppy A in your drive list

6. Click Open/Create button and browse the temp.IMA file then click Open to open temp.IMA file and extract it into your virtual floppy drive.

7. Browse your 3 1/2 virtual floppy drive, you should see SATA driver files listed.

8. To load it into nlite, follow the steps explained above, that’s all..:-)

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Comments

  1. vistaaddict says

    August 18, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    thank you very match !

    Reply
  2. DEARBC says

    December 15, 2009 at 9:42 am

    SALAMAT!!!!

    Reply
  3. Ver says

    March 14, 2010 at 4:05 am

    This step-by-step procedure saved my day. Thanks very much.

    Reply
  4. Drivers for HP Printers says

    June 10, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    Thank you for the guide on how to install it..
    very clear detail to make it easy to work..
    Thanks for sharing 🙂

    Reply
  5. laptopreviews says

    July 17, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    hank you for the guide on how to install Windows XP on Acer Travelmate. This step-by-step procedure is very easy to understand. Thanks for sharing with us.

    Reply
  6. ghd straightener says

    October 22, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    It is a woderful news .I have to use more of these ideas.Thank for your post, i really love it. I will come again.

    Reply
  7. JoKeR says

    December 12, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    you can download the windows has a built-in here http://123down.blogspot.com/2010/12/windows-xp-sp3-tich-hop-driver-sata_11.html

    Reply
  8. masud says

    May 26, 2011 at 12:31 am

    thanks for your guide

    Reply
  9. Henk says

    September 9, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    Nice description. I like it and I can work with it. However I can’t find the driver I need: Acer Aspire 5102WLMi notebook (processor: AMD Turion 64 x2 Mobile / chipset: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100). I have searched now for two weeks, tried a lot of drivers but none worked. I’m desperate, who can help me?

    Reply
  10. Henk says

    September 9, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    Forgot: of course needed to install XP.

    Reply
  11. zEr0 says

    October 9, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    I can’t extract the f6flpy32.exe file. where can I download the temp.IMA file?

    Reply
    • lorenz says

      October 9, 2011 at 8:45 pm

      Hi, you can extract the f6flpy32.exe file using winzip or winrar..

      Reply
  12. How to install windows vista from usb says

    November 1, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    What’s up colleagues, fastidious piece of writing and fastidious arguments commented at this place, I am truly enjoying by these.

    Reply
  13. acer says

    October 18, 2013 at 1:57 pm

    If your laptop is not designed to function on multiple currents, you will need an electrical converter to prevent damage.
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    Laptops are made to be light weight and portable do that
    people could carry it everywhere and anywhere they go without being burdened by it.
    Wi-Fi is a standard feature on today’s netbooks – and indeed this
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