What’s all this hooey about the difficulty in finding drivers. ALL drivers are available at http://www.intel.com & http://www.gateway.com   Today is May 27,2007 and I spent an hour between Intels Automatic Chipset Detection Tool and Gateways website. This was easier than Toshibas or Hewlett Packards where I had to go to each manufacturers site for drivers. This was EASY…..

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If you want to Change from Microsoft Vista to Windows XP  On a Gateway  MX8711 Laptop    with SATA Drive do the following:

Step One: Go to Intel to download the Intel Matrox  5.5.0.1035 SATA RAID Drivers, Run the utility and Write to Floppy ( http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=1809&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Home+Edition&lang=eng&strOSs=45&submit=Go%21)

Step Two: Install A USB Floppy On Your Laptop

Step Three: Install Windows XP pressing F6 to iniate the Raid Install using the Drivers from Intel

Step Four : Utilize the ONLY Mobil Driver

Step FIVE: I Left the files but youcan Format the Drive because you have control over the SATA Drive.

I read all kind of funky fixes, this is just the most logical......

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