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Originally Posted by bobson
No mate, it's simply that XP does not support SATA Hard Drives without driver. In other words, XP doesnt see/recognise your SATA hard drive, so you can not start installation if there is no hard drive  You have couple of options to go around the problem, all of them covered extensively on the net.
My laptop came with Vista, I installed XP as well so I can choose which one to run. I slipstreamed the SATA driver into installation XP CD. Or you can buy external floppy drive just for that, or cheat in BIOS if possible and so on. There is a solution for everything
But first thing first, get all drivers for your laptop before you start doing it. (Like video card, network card, chipset sound card and so on) MOst of the times you can download all of them from laptop manufacturer for your particular laptop model.
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I am running XP on My wife's computer and didn't have any trouble with sata drives it just worked with out special drivers or anything just worked and my laptop came with Vista and it has a Sata drive and didn't need to have drivers to install XP on it. Its only on the older mainboards where this may be a problem and I looked up about XP support for SATA drives and its only for some drives that don't have support. It was actually a DEll technician that told me about the BIOS Deal with Microsoft after I was trying to trouble shoot why I couldn't install XP on the Laptop and I could see his SATA HDD no problem.