Note that a stop in installation due to not having drivers for devices considered "mandatory" for booting the full setup after textmode, the error message will show something in the vein of:. If you do run into a different error code, it may be worth searching through what the error code means as it may be a completely unrelated issue. Make sure you download the classical drivers and you may want to look up the model of the motherboard and the southbridge sometimes manufacturers modify components to choose the best version more info on this in the above link.
In case you cannot find the drivers, a fallback is presented at the end of the document in the additional info section, however, note that this is NOT guaranteed to work, Fernando's drivers have been tested and so would be the first choice when choosing between drivers. It is recommended to make an ISO first and then burn the disc with disc verification on to make sure the burning of the disc doesnt cause any issues.
Please note that not all of these ids are verified the entries with question marks could not be found at the time, so if you run into any of them please update the table but the list should serve to narrow down the possibilities in case it is not possible to get the Hardware Ids any other way. Note that the newest available drivers are not automatically the best drivers for a system. There are certain things to keep in mind when choosing drivers for a system:.
In case of need for further support for both legacy and windows 7 drivers , the person who maintains the pages on the winRAID forums Fernando replies fairly promptly to both new posts on existing threads and messages a couple of days and should be able to help with any problems running legacy operating systems on newer machines in terms of missing driver files.
The information presented here is taken mainly from his guides and partly from various other sources on the web. Skip to main content. Pages Blog. Space shortcuts How-to articles. Child pages. Supported Operating Systems. Windows XP won't install on new machines since Browse pages. As Algoaccess is a startup of less than 5 years, we enrolled into Bizspark which gives us 3 years of free access to Microsoft software. MSDN provides legitimate software licenses and disk images of almost every Microsoft product.
Talk about going further down memory lane if you want to! There exists a 64 bit version of XP Pro but I rather not go that way as drivers for that are hard to find even in its era. Your BIOS settings must take care of these limitations. Another optional setting is SATA mode. AHCI will require extra drivers which have to be slipstreamed into the WinXP installation media which is in the next step.
This was a common problem even during the heydays of Windows XP. A more detailed post about this issue has been written by another blogger here. Windows XP also happens to be the last OS I believe to have its installation interface seem like a DOS-lookalike text-based installers of its predecessors. When you boot an original installation CD, this message will flash for about 3 seconds at the start. This is where the issue got its name from. If you ignore this, you will still get another chance later.
Seen in the context of that era, the floppy disk thing is quite understandable. If your hard disk controller is not recognised, your CD drive is holding the Windows CD and USB flash drives are not yet commonplace then what is left?
The proper way if one does not have an internal floppy drive is to get a USB floppy drive, load the AHCI drivers into the floppy disk and proceed as per normal. Believe me, I have tried this solution years before and it works provided if you have the right USB floppy chipset. More details on supported floppy chipsets in the same F6 explanation link. The more elegant solution however, is to inject the AHCI drivers directly into the installation media so WinXP can recognise your hard disk controller from the get go.
If one is using an older machine, getting the AHCI drivers is no biggie, just a download away from the Intel website. However, we are now using a more modern 8-Series chipset. Thankfully, a Google search brought a lifesaver. Somebody has modded his own universal AHCI drivers with support for the newer chipsets. You can download the driver here or in the picture link below. Download older version of nLite 1. Just add everything in.
OEM in the driver zip to see which is the correct driver for your Southbridge model to specifically slipstream in. We have to convert them to MBR. We shall use a partitioning tool called GParted to do the job. Just download the ISO image and boot from it. The GParted program will start automatically on boot. You may be tempted to just restart and allow the XP installer create the partitions during the next install step.
Modern Advanced Format drives from now use a 4KiB sector size instead of bytes which was the era where XP was designed. If your created partition is not aligned to 4KiB, which a legacy OS like XP will get wrong, you will have performance issues. More details can be found here and here. Ensure that your first partition has a Free space preceding of 1 MiB to ensure the partition is aligned to the 4KiB boundary. Remember that in an MBR layout, you can have at most 4 primary partitions.
This screen greets you at the start. Future Windows setups will no longer have this blue background with white text theme. This is a legacy from the Windows 3. You can see the similarity in this Windows 3. The XP installer should now treat your hard disk controller as if it has recognised it from the day the image was made. It will reboot to the GUI installer after some time.
Easiest Windows eh? Integrated CD recording was such a hit thing then, nobody ever does it today. At one point you can customise the date range option. The default is which is awfully close already, you should change that to something further away. This window indicates your Setup process is coming to an end. This section was actually introduced in Service Pack 2 in to encourage more people to update Windows in response to greater security threats.
And we are almost done! Not totally, but successfully reaching the desktop is a major milestone in any OS installation. Look at the mass of missing drivers man. This laptop does not have a RJ45 ethernet adapter. I happened to purchase this USB 3. Without graphics drivers, the video performance of the OS will be very sluggish.
The screen will occasionally flicker and frame rate is low when you do stuff like dragging the application window or scrolling in your web browser.
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