Weird error during windows xp install, please help

[filten]

Hi guys,

I recently purchased an HP DV9000T laptop. I wanted to reinstall windows XP pro on it from scratch, so I don't have to deal with all the pre-installed crap.

I have a USB floppy drive and loaded the intel sata drivers via F6 during install. However once I got to the step where the setup is copying files to HD (right after selecting which partition to install windows to) the floppy drive just refused to be read, prompting me to insert a disk, even though it was already inserted.

So I slipstreamed those same drivers into the windows install cd, however, on that same step, I'm getting pretty much the same error (Files cannot be read from CD).

Has anybody encountered this? Could it be a bad driver? This one came directly from HP.

Please help.

Thanks.

[nitroshift]

Hi and welcome to msfn My guess is that the drivers you downloaded are corrupt. Try downloading them again or possibly from a different source.

[filten]

I finally figured out how to do this.

Apparently the reason the install crashed is because setup thought that both CD-ROM and HD were using primary IDE channel, couldn't recognize between SATA and IDE interfaces.

So I disabled native SATA in BIOS, then installed windows (at this point no SATA drivers are needed as it emulates IDE).

After windows was installed I manually changed the driver for the controller to SATA and after restarting computer changed BIOS setting back to native SATA.

Worked like a charm.