Downgrading to XP

I Have an OKI EAA-89 notebook with Spanish home Vista on it. I understand I cannot convert this to English and have tried to load XP. This comes up with setup did not find any hard drives installed on the computer and I believe that I need the driver to make XP use the drive. I cannot find any PC drivers on the OKI site and am unsure what to do if I get a driver.
the system summery is:
Nombre del SO Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Versión 6.0.6000 compilación 6000
Descripción adicional del SO No disponible
Fabricante del SO Microsoft Corporation
Nombre del sistema ELIZABETH1
Fabricante del sistema INFINITY
Modelo del sistema Crestline & ICH8M Chipset
Tipo de sistema Equipo basado en X86
Procesador Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz, 1500 Mhz, 2 procesadores principales, 2 procesadores lógicos
Versión y fecha de BIOS Phoenix Technologies LTD I3B41, 24/07/2007
Versión de SMBIOS 2.4
Directorio de Windows C:\Windows
Directorio del sistema C:\Windows\system32
Dispositivo de arranque \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Configuración regional Reino Unido
Capa de abstracción de hardware Versión = "6.0.6000.16386"
Nombre de usuario Elizabeth1\Elizabeth
Zona horaria Hora estándar GMT
Memoria física total 2,037.81 MB
Memoria física disponible 1,011.82 MB
Memoria virtual total 4.20 GB
Memoria virtual disponible 3.06 GB
Espacio de archivo de paginación 2.28 GB
Archivo de paginación C:\pagefile.sys
Any ideas

 

If you are doing a clean install, with an authentic Windows disc, Windows will load the drivers it needs to do this. Just insert the disc and restart your PC. As it starts (before loading Windows), enter your BIOS setup, choose to boot first from your CD/DVD drives, save the new configuration and exit. Windows will take over for the install. Make sure to re-format the HDD when it reaches that point.

PS: You may have problems finding drivers for your PC after downgrading.

 

It could be that the hard drive is a SATA drive and Windows won't see it without what we call the "F6" driver. But if the drive has Vista on it, and the partition has not been deleted, then it is already formatted, and should be recognized by Windows XP setup. Check the BIOS settings and make sure that the hard drive is set up correctly in the BIOS. If Windows XP won't see the drive you will need to either get a floppy drive (an external USB floppy drive) so you can install the "F6" driver, or you can try removing the hard drive from the laptop and formatting it on another XP computer by hooking it up as a secondary drive. If the Vista PC loads to the Vista desktop OK, without errors or problems, then the hard drive is healthy and installing XP to it shouldn't be a problem.