Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Streamline SATA driver for HP CQ40

I am trying to install win XP on a HP CQ40 laptop which was actually build for Vista.
First problem is that it will not be able to detect a SATA hard disk. You can try to disable SATA in BIOS but my CQ40 does not come with that option.

I had to download a SATA driver and then try to integrate it into existing winXP cd. A process called streamlining. Need to have:

1. SATA driver file
2. nLite program
3. WinXP CD
4. blank CD and an ISO burner software

Reference : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/

For CQ40-406AU winXP drivers
http://laptop-driver.blogspot.com/2009/05/compaq-presario-cq40-406au-windows-xp.html

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