I'm really getting aggrivated. I know I have to have the driver on a floppy and F6 during install startup, but it wants to see the txtsetup.oem file first. The motherboard CD doesn't contain one so how can I do this?

any help would be appreciated....Thanks in advance.


XP shouldn't need any drivers for a SATA HD, unless you're doing RAID. OR you have an old MB.


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WOW, you have no fuckin' idea what you're talkin' about so just shut it... Windows XP ABSOLUTELY needs drivers for SATA hard drives... If you're like me OP, you have a newer laptop and Windows XP's install CD doesn't come equipped with the drivers needed for the newer SATA's... My BIOS also doesn't contain an option to switch modes...

OP... this is what you do.... Skip the floppy disk... What you need to do is download a copy of Windows XP and create a custom installation with it and place your SATA drivers in the installation....

This is one of the first links that came up on Google... You need nlite, a digital copy of XP, your SATA drivers, and a CD-R to burn this new installation discs...

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