Slipstreaming Failed

[cleonjones]

Well, I got a laptop about a month ago, the retail Gateway T-8615, preloaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. I wanted to put Windows XP Home SP2 onto my laptop also and without XP supporting SATA drives by default I'm having trouble, and I tried several things.

I tried slipstreaming using nLite by adding the drivers I found on the Gateway Downloads section for my laptop specifically. I first tried including the Hard Drive and Motherboard drivers into the ISO created by nLite, and it would boot and I tried pressing F6 and hitting S but it didn't detect the drivers on the disc. I followed instructions given on these forums and on about 6 other ones that were all pretty much the same. I tried it with just the Western Digital Hard Drive drivers and then tried using Autostreamer and DriverPack and the DriverPack packages. All failed to get XP to recognize my SATA drive. I've went through about 7 CD-Rs and I've been reading topic after topic after topic and becoming more and more frustrated.

These are some of the guides I've followed word for word and even trying a few different methods and mixing these together:

http://www.msfn.org/board/Slipstreaming_Se...ers_t34440.html

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=sh...;showarticle=22

All the rest I deleted from my favorites after they didn't work, but I've googled this so many times, concerning nLite, just the XP disc and additional files burnt to an ISO, DriverPacks and Autostreamer. I know this has to be implemented somehow but I can't seem to get results like others.

My BIOS has no options to disable native SATA support and I can't find any drivers or anything for the BIOS to flash it or anything. The only options in the Advanced section of my BIOS are:

Summary Screen: Enabled

Legacy USB Support: Enabled

Internal WLAN Power State: Restore

Internal BlueTooth Power State: Restore

AC Wake On Lan: Disable

My BIOS is Phoenix TrustedCore Setup Utility, since I'm on a laptop, using a floppy disc is not an option.

I have Nero 6 Ultimate Edition, MagicISO, InfraRecorder, nLite, Autostreamer and DriverPack. If anyone is up to assisting me or offering some tips, it would be greatly appreciated.