![]() Here you will have the option to format your harddrive…ĭell likes to partition their drive into 4 partitions… 2 of them hidden partitions… (Boot partition, Recovery partition, OS partition, Mediadirect partition) I deleted them all and started from scratch (I burned the recovery partition to a DVD beforehand anyways, just in case). Step 3… Windows setup will now boot (blue screens, etc). Step 2… Start the computer with the Windows XP disk in the drive, and hit F12 to load the boot menu…. If this all seems like too much work for you, then you can avoid the whole SATA issue by going into your BIOS, and changing the hard drive mode from SATA to IDE mode. (The other way is to put SATA drivers on a USB stick and hit F6 during initial Windows setup…). ![]() Step 1… You need a version of Windows XP SP2 with built-in SATA drivers… I personally used LastXP (feel free to go find this on a torrent site somewhere, you have the option to install one of your own valid XP keys as part of its setup). OK, so now for the Windows XP walkthrough…
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