Running Windows XP on a SATA hard drive
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urbanotter5 said:Alright, let me lay this out...
I’ve got this new HP nx7300 laptop featuring a SATA hard drive. Here's the snag: whenever I try to kick off the installation using an original Windows XP CD, the system demands that I load the hard drive drivers from a Floppy. Problem is, I don't own a Floppy drive, nor do I have a USB Floppy adapter lying around. I reached out to HP customer support, and they were actually pretty helpful! They sent over instructions on how to bypass the Floppy requirement, along with links for the necessary drivers and the nLite software...
So now I'm sitting here with all the drivers on my hard drive—graphics, sound, the whole nine yards—plus nLite, but the actual step-by-step process is still a total mystery to me. If anyone here knows the exact drill for getting this installed on a SATA hard drive, please walk me through it. If there’s already a dedicated thread covering this, just drop the link!
Basically, I'm stuck on the sequence—do I need to move the drivers to the hard drive first, then run nLite, or is there a different flow to this whole thing?
I'm running into the exact same issue,
could you please post those SATA driver links right here?
Thanks a million!