I dont think if its any case of a SATA sontroller , cause after accepting EULA by pressing F8 it would examine the Disc and then show the partition , that in itself would mean success in recognising the SATA Controller disc, i had little failure by using the the Novircorp product when installing it in the Second partition, the only lack was the amount it take to copy the content to a USB. -[b] Is the second partition a Primary Partition or is it a Logical Drive of an Extended Partition ? You need a Primary Partition for Install of XP.[/b] You need to investigate the harddisk on which you try to Install XP by booting first from grub4dos menu with PE (LiveXP or 7PE) or with PartedMagic. Then you can inspect your harddisk with e.g. Disk Management and see what is causing your trouble. Also use Windows Explorer to see where XP Setup TXT mode has made the WINDOWS folder and has copied the files. If i am installing on a Second partition then it would mean it on a extended or logical drive. IF this tool is only meant to be installed on a Primary partition then i would its natual for it to show errors. Even then Novicorp would fair better here in installing it on a Second partition ,,,,,,,