Save the BIOS option, and restart the installation of Windows XP.Navigate the BIOS and look for the option to disable SATA.If you can not find the proper SATA drivers, or the above tips do not work for you, a final solution is to disable the SATA mode from the BIOS, but this can decrease the performance of your hard drive. This way, XP will be able to recognize your SATA drive. In this case, you need to unzip the drivers for the SATA controller and use the nLite software to integrate them on the Windows XP installation CD. When Windows prompts you (shown at the bottom of screen), press the F6 key to install the third party drivers for the Serial ATA hard drive You do not have a floppy drive Two scenarios are possible: You have a floppy driveĪfter setting the BIOS to boot on the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, insert the Windows installation CD and follow the steps to install Windows XP. Visit the official website of the manufacturer and download the drivers for the Serial-ATA controller of your motherboard and save them to a floppy disk (if you have one!) after unzipping them. If you still have the manuals, you can refer to it in order to identify the make and model of the motherboard.

To do this, it is essential to know the exact model of motherboard. Check out the make/model of motherboardĪbove all, it is necessary to get the latest stable Serial ATA drivers for your motherboard.

Windows XP Pro SP2 fares well with SATA drivers, but here is what can be done in cases where the driver is not recognised. I want to follow the documented RESOLUTION from the microsoft article, and do not want to loose everything that is on the drive by running the Dell PC restore.Without proper SATA drivers, installing Windows XP on a SATA hard drive is not possible as SATA mode would have to be disabled in the BIOS to continue with the installation. After reading the forum help messages, I concluded that I have the exact problem described in the section 'Black startup screen is briefly displayed and your computer restarts repeatedly when you try to start Windows XP' For the RESOLUTION, I need the 'Windows XP startup disk', however this laptop did not come with one, only a paper with the message 'To learn more about obtaining a copy of your operating system CD or drivers for your computer, visit /pcrt' I have spent over an hour trying to find where I can obtain this CD, with no luck. When I try to boot, the Dell logo boot screen is displayed, then a Black startup screen is briefly displayed and one line of text flashes by so fast that it is impossible to read it, then it loops back to the Dell boot logo screen again. I have a Dell Inspiron B130 laptop, purchased in December 2005, which was running Windows XP Home.

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