Surely you just need to download the XP drivers for your SATA interface and supply them at install time. Assuming you have a floppy drive of course...
Correct, that's what I though. But this laptop, like most other new laptops I know, does not come with a floppy drive anymore. So I tried it with a USB floppy drive. Doesn't work, the OS does not recognise it, so it can't access it after having pressed F6.
It's also not real easy to find SATA drivers for an Intel chipset (Intel 965 in this case). I thought I found _something_ that should work, but I'm still not entirely sure. Not that it matters, because I can't access the files anyway since the floppy drive won't work.
Or you can use the drivers and the XP install to create a new slipstream install with the drivers included.
I thought about that, but I've never done this before. My Xp installation CD is also still an SP1 version. But I fear that, if I immediately include the SATA drivers onto the CD (the only way I can see this can be done is by including SP2, right?), my registration key will not be accepted anymore (even though I assure you it is genuine... but I've had this happen to me in the past)
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