Well I'm sick of this matter, I'm stuck on partitioning. I don't know how to do it. Hard drive is 160 GB, Fdisk can't do it, Partition Magic neither, Windows XP not getting installed casue of STA drive, have no USB drive to install the SATA drivers from manufacturer, any suggestion? I'm just sick of my new laptop and if this problem not gonna solved I gonna throw my laptop out side from my window, any help guys?

Do I understand you right that you are trying to install XP by creating a dual boot environment on a notebook preinstalled with Vista? Of course PM8 won't work with Vista whereas Acronis Disk Director Suite v10 will.

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I just want to install windows XP on my preinstalled Visa notebook but I need USB floppy drive to install the SATA drivers in order to install the XP, is there any other way or device which can be used as USB flpppy drive so I can install the SATA drivers while Windows XP setup and then install the Windows XP? Thank you

As far as I know the only way is a floppy drive or USB floppy.
Once you install the driver you can partition and format with the XP cd.
Be sure all the XP required drivers for your laptop are available before you start.
Why get rid of Vista? are you having problems? if so let us know, someone may be able to help.

I'd use Virtual PC and not fool with all that. Free and native speeds.

If you insist and you wish to risk data loss then use partition magic or a pm clone that is supported by vista.

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.