If you don't have one installed, or can't get your hands on a 3.5 USB drive, then you'll need to D/L nLite as suggested above. No other media will be accepted with the F6 method. If this old machine has a 3.5 floppy diskette drive, you can put just the Sata/Raid drivers on a blank disk, hit F6 at the beginning of the setup (it goes by quick), and then insert the disk later when prompted. So you'll want to nail that down to D/L the correct drivers. the correct format for MSI MB ID will look like MS-XXXX. You should also D/L chipset and graphics drivers. (XP thru SP3 is pre-sata, so I don't believe any official release will install on a Sata drive without the 3rd party drivers.) to which I would add the following.įor fresh install of XP onto a Sata drive you will need Sata/Raid drivers (usually bundled) from MSI support site. Im working on this problem for 3-4 days so ANY kind of help would be appreciated.Īll good advice above. I believe that the reason why it doesnt install the Windows xp, my harddisk is AHCI and it just requires IDE harddrive (old harddrives like my dead PATA harddrive)

Windows xp home premium, windows xp 64 bit, even windows longhorn reloaded. I tried so many windows xp installation discs. And when i reboot it just says 'Error loading operating system' or just gives a white blinking dash in the corner instead of continuing the setup. And here is the problem.Īfter first windows XP installation (that first, completely blue setup) the computer requires a reboot. I chose my 80 GB harddrive and installed the first layer of the setup and computer wanted me to reboot. I installed it to my pc and pulled out my Windows xp pro installation disc. It is Seagate Barracuda (if i typed it correct) 80 GB SATA Harddrive (the broken one was PATA). Then I find out that the harddrive was completely dead and needs a new hard drive. The computer was fine but when I try to boot up the pc It was loading up bios and after that It was giving this error 'Insert bootable drive.' etc. So I have a very old dead computer sitting in the corner of my room and I decided to revive it.

Windows xp sp3 google drive