Install Windows XP on Dell Inspiron 1525 with SATA Drive

[Gajpal]

Hi .

I recently bought new dell inspiron 1525 with 120GB SATA with windows vista pre installed. I then bought Windows XP service pack 2 to install because i'm not that much good in using Windows Vista. But the SATA drives not comes with the drivers to run XP. Does anybody know where i can get this drivers.

thanks a lot for any help.

[Raiz]

First off, you'll need the SATA drivers on a USB floppy. Here is link for you.

SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)

[shahid khan]

If Windows XP has service pack 2 all you need to do is to go into the BIOS and place your CD or DVD drive as first bootable. Windows XP with SP2 will not install otherwise.

[Neel23]

are you talking about loading the SATA drivers prior to installing XP (via F6 during setup)?

[ang]

First off, you'll need the SATA drivers on a USB floppy. Here is link for you.

SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)

This worked perfectly. This drove me nuts.

Yhx.