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Getting Bugged while running into B.S.O.D( Blue Screen Of Death) while trying to install windows xp in your new laptop??? Relax!!!!It's due to the fact that your Windows XP does not have the SATA drivers which is required to detect your Hard Disk Drives. The solution to this is to integrate SATA drivers to your winxp CD.You still can install Win Xp by Slip streaming SATA driver into WinXp boot cd using nLite.


Stuffs You need as Pre-requisite:

1) nLite(Its a freeware...you can google it and download) for slipstreaming(integrate your SATA drivers into WinXp installation disk).
2) Extract SATA drivers (Please see the corresponding Laptop models for SATA drivers in your Mainboard Cd.)


Steps:

1) Get your Windows XP installation disk and copy the contents to a new folder(Give a meaningful name preferrably Winxp or Winvista etc).

2) Extract the SATA drivers you downloaded into a folder.


3) Run Nlite
-->Choose Next


4) Now, locate the Windows folder.


5) Next again and you will come to “Presets”. Ignore this by choosing “Next” again.


6) In “Task Selection”, choose “Drivers” and “Bootable ISO” by high-lighting them as shown(MAKE SURE THEY ARE HIGHLIGHTED ELSE IT WONT WORK).


7) Choose “Insert”->”Single driver”


8) Browse to the SATA driver folder and select either one of the .INF file,Preferrably choose “iaahci.inf”.


9) A screen like below will pop-up, make sure it’s “Textmode driver” ( This is the most important step ) and select all of them by holding CTRL+A key and choose “OK”


10) You shall see something like this. Choose “Next” and you will be prompted.


11) Choose “Yes” to start the process.


12) Let it finish and choose “Next”.


13) Finally, you can create your project as ISO image or burn it directly to CD-R under “Mode”. I choose “Direct Burn”. You can put anything for “Label” but not too long. Choose “Burn” and you will be prompted again


14) Choose “Yes” to burn it to CD-R. Wait for it to finish and choose “Next”


15) Choose “Finish” to exit nLite.


Well!! Thats that...Thats all You can now boot your laptop with this CD and install Windows Xp with out Blue screen showing.

Note of Warning: Incase you run into Visual C++ Errors during Installation Process(After merging harddisk files with Xp files), Kindly delete the files and start all oer again. The process cant resume broken slip streams ( if it can it aint prescribed).