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From: - Bobb - on 6 Apr 2008 12:57
If you can get the drivers, why not put them on a CD ?
When XP install starts, on the screen it will show ( bottom of screen)

" Press F6 to install a SCSI or RAID controller"

Press F6
Insert Cd with disk drivers
browse to drivers folder to load them
once loaded, reinsert XP CD
continue

I just did a google search for
" xp install press F6 sata"

and found this page so rather than me typing :
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/instxprepair1_3.htm

"older version of the Windows XP installation CD and you have an SATA disk
drive, you will need to press F6 here to load any necessary drivers. The
instructions that came with your hard drive or computer should include
this information. ..."


"Aaron S" <no.spam(a)no.spam.com> wrote in message
news:Ku46j.69297$RX.54631(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.net...
> Well, got no floppy drive in my ThinkPad X61 laptop.
> Anyone can loan me a USB floppy drive for 5 minutes?
>
> "Ben Myers" <ben_myers_spam_me_not(a)charter.net> wrote in message
> news:ki0fl35pmt25r845oaplnnddpi12o1gmnf(a)4ax.com...
>> The OP is installing XP on a separate drive than the one that contains
>> Vista.
>>
>> His problem with the XP install is that the installation CD needs to
>> have added
>> drivers loaded so that it can find an SATA drive. If the OP is using
>> a classic
>> XP install CD or an XP SP1 CD, SATA drivers are missing. As a result,
>> he needs
>> to obtain XP's SATA drivers for the motherboard chipset in his
>> computer, copy
>> them onto a floppy diskette, and insert the floppy in a a diskette
>> drive after
>> pressing F6 early on in the text-oriented part of the XP install. If
>> the
>> system has no floppy drive (highly probably), and external USB floppy
>> drive will
>> do. Clever how Microsoft supports an obsolete floppy drive as the
>> only medium
>> than can be used to introduce supplementary disk drivers into the
>> install
>> process. Absolute genius! ... Ben Myers
>>
>> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:27:05 -0700, Quaoar <quaoar(a)marcabfleet.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Aaron S wrote:
>>>> We just the the new ThinkPad X61 laptop.
>>>> It comes with Vista Home Basic.
>>>> I also order anther additional 60GB hard drive to run older XP
>>>> programs
>>>> that would not run in Vista.
>>>>
>>>> I install this new hard drive. I am able to use the Vista CD and boot
>>>> up
>>>> and install Vista in this new hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> But I am unable to install XP in this new hard drive. After I boot up
>>>> with XP disc and start loading for few minutes, then it say it starts
>>>> Windows, then, it turn blue crash screen.
>>>>
>>>> I am unable to start installation when I am in Vista. Microsoft keep
>>>> telling I already have the later version of Windows in hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you advance for your help.
>>>
>>>Google: dual boot xp vista
>>>
>>>This will provide detailed instructions for installing XP after
>>>installing Vista.
>

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