Originally Posted By: Archeon
Originally Posted By: andy
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).

That is a big problem with MS Windows these past few years -- lack of included device drivers, or the need to find/add tons of missing ones after a basic install.

Fortunately, O/S installation is a relatively rare task, one would hope. So the extra time spent there is relatively unimportant.