Stephen Usher wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2008, at 20:34, Tony Firshman wrote:
>>> Unless the laptop is available with Windows XP on it forget it. You
>>> won't find drivers for most of the modern hardware. Also, if the
>>> machine has a SATA hard disk interface you'll need a driver on a
>>> floppy disk just so that you can install Windows XP.
>> Not necessarily true. My Tosh laptop has a sata HD and installs XP
>> just
>> fine from the CD.
>
>
> The stock Windows XP SP2 CD (Home, Professional and corporate install
> versions) won't be able to access SATA devices (unless the BIOS makes
> them pretend to be PATA).
>
> It's quite probable that the Toshiba XP install CD will have the
> interface drivers added already. It would be silly if they didn't do
> this.
>
This was not a Toshiba CD, but XP pro SP2. I wanted to get rid of the
bloated Media edition they dumped on me. I suppose the bios is
pretending (8-)#
Tony
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