No changes, it takes me to the same error message Sorry, too bad english, i don't understand what do you mean. I took 32bit driver from your first post marked as a) and as it was told in another guide i enabled all of controllers because i didn't know which of them i needed. what is interesting - all of described i did with SP3. Now i tried SP2 doing everything the same and it doesn't recognize the hard drive again. I read that its even suggested to try SP2 first. solved the problem wasn't driver related. I just didnt get the pre-installation menus right, i don't think i get them now, but at least XP is installing [edit] actually problem isn't solved because i can start my laptop only with installation flash drive plugged in but as i think this problem is off this topic so thanks for your help