XP does not have a built-in SATA driver, you need to install that right at the XP-install start when XP asks to press F6 to install any other driver(s). SATA in the BIOS needs to be set to "Compatibility" for XP to work. No point installing an IDE driver for a SATA drive, is there now? Thanks for t...

Hi everyne, This thread is very useful, esp the procedure from TXFI: 1) Turned on the laptop without the caddy in the UltraBay 2) enabled IDE in Windows Registry by setting the value for "Start" to "0" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pciide 3) rebooted and changed the BIOS se...