If you have a newer versions of laptops, those in it’s setup you can’t choose in between ata or sata ard disks you will be facing alot of troubles in installing Windows XP
You will need to download a floppy SATA RAID driver, extract it to floppy disk and then when installing XP, you need to press F6 to install the RAID driver
However, newer desktop computers and laptops doesn’t come with floppy drive
It’d be a waste to buy an external USB floppy drive just to use to install Windows XP
In order not to use floppy drive, you can integrate the floppy SATA RAID driver into Windows xP CD
This way, you can install Windows XP on a SATA hard drive without using floppy
You’ll need to have XP CD or the source files (i386) on your computer, the floppy SATA RAID driver which can be downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer’s website and a CD/DVD writer
Most new computers already comes with a CD write
Here are the steps .
download SATA driver from manufacturer website and extract it to a new folder
Run nLite and select the language that you want to display in nLite
. Specify the Windows XP installation files. If there is a i386 folder at the root of your drive
most probably that can be used. If not, enter your XP CD and browse your disc drive lette
Click Next once done
. Click Next again when you’re at Presets
. At Task Selection, click Drivers and Bootable ISO
Click Next
. Now click Insert button, select “Multiple driver folder“, choose the folder with extracted drivers
and click OK
Select the shown drivers to integrate. Do not select 64 bit drivers on a 32 bit Windows XP
Click OK when done selecting the drivers. Click Next
. You’ll need to choose the exact type of hardware and OS if listed. A few textmode integration
options will be listed. You can check the manufacturer’s website to know which chipset is being used. Select the drivers and click OK and then click Next
Click Yes when asked “Do you want to start the process?” The driver integration wouldn’t take more than a minute
Click Next when done.. At the next screen you can create a bootable ISO to burn to CD/DVD, or you can even burn to CD directly using “Direct Burn”
Congratulations! You now have a new Windows XP CD/DVD that contains SATA RAID drivers
