selecting install leads me to the F8 accept agreement screen, then just after pointing to the disk or partition where XP should be installed, I get prompted for the Floppy drive again but the floppy drive light doesn't light up or get accessed. If you haven't given a driver at this point you might get a BSOD with a STOP ERROR 0x000.... with some strange number. Sometimes the failure to give a proper SATA driver will halt at the screen with "39 Minutes left" for installation.. .
To make your SATA Floppy disk .. check your Motherboard CD, Use Everest or similar to find out what Hardware you have installed, Search the internet for your laptop make model & type then look up the hardware characteristics payng attention to what SATA devices are built in. When you are confident that you have the correctly recognised the SATA Interface .. look for drivers, once again using Google or Yahoo.
The contents of the unzipped folder where you will have extracted the drivers will hold files pertaining to the installation and recognition of the interface.
Usually it will contain a file with the name of the driver being installed.
It will also have a file called TXTSETUP.OEM which Windows will look at to ascertain what it needs to do to correctly recognise the device being installed.
Looking through the driver download that you were given it can be seen that there are two folders called Floppy 32 & Floppy 64 which hold the respective drivers for 32 or 64 bit OS's.
drag the contents of the required folder to a floppy so it is in the root directory. This means that when you click on the A: drive to see the contents you will see the contents as is above in the contents side .. ignore the tree on the other side
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