One of the major problems that has plagued Windows XP is it’s never had the facility to install itself onto some newer hardware without the need for extra steps. Although SATA, AHCI and RAID enabled storage controllers have been around for several years, the Windows XP install CD never gained the ability to install directly onto this hardware, and you need a floppy disk with the necessary drivers for XP to be able to recognize your hard drives during setup. If you don’t use a driver floppy, you will get the dreaded “” error. Download a floppy SATA/RAID driver, extract it to floppy disk and then when installing XP, you need to press F6 at the specified time to install the driver.

Apr 17, 2010 When you install Win XP, setup can not find your Hard Drive. 1) Download & Install nLite. NLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation. 2) Make a new folder for your Windows XP image. Note: for this example, I am using the name Win XP Sata. 3) Insert XP CD & start nLite. 4) Click Next. Slipstreaming Windows XP To Create a. How To slipstream SATA Drivers. Using a disk like this you can now install Windows XP and be at a high patch level.

However, most desktop computers and all laptops don’t come with a floppy drive these days, and what makes it worse is you cannot use anything else such as a USB stick to put the drivers on, it MUST be a floppy drive. Although you can use an external USB floppy drive, it would be a waste to buy one just to use it for installing Windows XP. Recently we found a workaround that can enable you to after pressing F6, but this solution is known to be not 100% working on all computers. In order to get around having to use a floppy drive, you can integrate the floppy SATA/RAID driver into the Windows XP CD yourself. Score World Goals.

This way, you can install Windows XP on a SATA hard drive without using a floppy drive at all because the driver is already present on the CD. You’ll need to have an XP CD or the source files contained on one stored on your hard drive, the floppy SATA/RAID driver which can be downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer’s website and a CD/DVD writer.

Here are 2 ways to integrate the SATA drivers into your Windows XP CD allowing installation without the need of a floppy drive. 1: Integrate SATA drivers using nLite This first method uses the update and driver integrating tool nLite to add the drivers to the Windows XP CD. George Michael Twenty Five 3cd Deluxe Edition. Just about everyone looking to customize their Windows XP install CD has heard of this tool. And install nLite.